20/12/2025
The Pavia Psychoanalytic Center is vibrant, and its community of fifty members—among the most renowned IPA analysts—makes it an international point of reference. Their background in psychiatry and the neural sciences allows them to operate at the interface between the psychoanalytic and medical communities.
Standing on the shoulders of giants who continue to work among us, starting with Fausto.
Two of the Center’s psychoanalysts have received the Sigourney Award, undoubtedly the most important recognition in the field of psychoanalysis. For almost 30 years, Nino Ferro has been a psychoanalytic leader, making major contributions to the literature, lecturing and teaching throughout the world, and building bridges between psychoanalysis and the scientific and academic communities.
Giuseppe Civitarese has sought to refound psychoanalytic art criticism (cinema, painting, literature), no longer basing it on the rigid, top-down application of psychoanalytic categories, but instead establishing a dialogue grounded in reciprocity: not only what psychoanalysis can say about art, but also what art can say about psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysis is a scientific discipline that can have a profound impact on humanity, because it helps us understand the subtle social structure of subjectivity.
Long live psychoanalysis.
Thanks to our Presidents
Société Psychanalytique de Paris The British Psychological Society Società Psicoanalitica Italiana
Università degli Studi di Pavia
Fondazione I.R.C.C.S. Policlinico San Matteo Pavia
Giovanni Battista Foresti Giuseppe Civitarese Giovanni Guido Stella Valentino Ferro Davide Broglia Federica Recchia Angelo Antonio Moroni Fulvio Mazzacane Patrizia Santinon Maria Naccari Carlizzi Maurizio Collovà Pierluigi Politi