Maurizio Andolfi

Maurizio Andolfi, M.D. was born in Rome in 1942. He studied Medicine and Child Psychiatry in Rome at University “La Sapienza”.

After his University education he moved to New York City in the early ‘70s, with a Fellowship in Social Community Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and working extensively in South Bronx and in South Philadelphia with very disadvantaged families from different ethnic groups.

During his staying in the U.S. he studied in the major family therapy institutes of the East Coast: The Family Studies Section of Bronx State Hospital with Israel Zwerling and Albert Scheflen; the Nathan Ackerman Family Institute with Kitty La Perrière and Peggy Papp; the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic with Salvador Minuchin and Jay Haley. During these years he was influenced by Carl Whitaker, with whom he had been studying and organizing many international meetings and conferences in several countries.

In the USA he was a Visiting Professor at the Department of Mental Health Sciences of the Hanheman Medical College in Philadelphia for number of years.

Today he is Full Professor in Psychology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, founder and director of the Accademia di Psicoterapia della Famiglia (A.P.F.), an A.A.M.F.T. Approved Supervisor, founder of the Silvano Andolfi Foundation, editor- in- chief of the Italian journal Terapia Familiare, winner of a AAMFT award for special contribution in couple and family therapy in 1999, co-founder of the European Family Therapy Association and past president of the Italian Family Therapy Society.

Since1981 -for English speaking family therapists- and from 1991 -for Spanish and French speaking family therapists- up to now, he has been conducting, a yearly practicum in family therapy in Rome. He created a very active international network with colleagues coming from all over the world, largely through the practicum and a number of international presentations and workshops. .

Andolfi's articles and books' chapters:

• Andolfi M., Angelo C., “The therapist as director of the family drama”, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, July 1981.

• Andolfi M., Menghi P., Provocative supervision, in Family Therapy Supervision - recent development in practice, Academic Press, London, 1982.

• Andolfi M., Angelo C., Menghi P., Nicolò-Corigliano A. M., “Provocation as a therapeutic intervention”, The Family Therapy Networker, March-April 1983.

• Andolfi M., How to engage families with a rigid organisation in therapy: an attempt to integrate strategic and structural interventions, in Evolving Models for Family Change, Guilford Press, New York, 1986.

• Andolfi M., Angelo C., “Towards constructing the therapeutic system”, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 14, 1988.

• Andolfi M., Angelo C., Di Nicola V., Family myth, metaphor and the metaphoric object in therapy, in Family Myths, The Hawarth Press, New York, 1989.

• Andolfi M., Systemic family psychotherapy, in "What is Psychotherapy?", Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1990.

• Andolfi M., “The child as consultant” in Andolfi M., Haber R. (eds.), Please help me with this family, Brunner/Mazel (now Taylor & Francis), New York, 1994.

• Andolfi M., The dying child and his family – La perdita e le risorse della famiglia, in Acta Medica Romana, vol. 39, n. 1, 2001.

• Andolfi M., Couple therapy as a transforming process: reflections on couples’ stories, in Massey R. F. e Davis Massey S. (eds.), Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy, vol. 3, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2002.

• Andolfi, M. Introduction of The Oaxaca Book, in Andolfi M., L. Calderón de La Barca, Working with marginalized families and communities: professional in the trenches, Accademia di Psicoterapia della famiglia, Rome, 2008.

Interviews:

• Barrows S.E., “Family Therapy in Europe: an interview with Maurizio Andolfi”, in The American Journal of Family Therapy, vol.9, n.4, Brunner/Mazel, New York, 1981.

• Hiebert W.J., “In focus”, in Family Therapy News, March-April 1986.

• Nichols M., “The fox and the bear, Gianfranco Cecchin and Maurizio Andolfi debate neutrality vs. provocation, in Family Therapy Networker, january-february 1987.

• Haber R., “Neutrality vs, provocation: a dialogue and demonstration with Cecchin and Andolfi”, in Terapia Familiare Notizie, 6, July 1987.

• Wendt R.N., “An interview with Maurizio Andolfi”, in The Australian and New Zeland Journal of Family Therapy, vol.8, n.3, September 1987.

• Brothey B.J., (ed.) “Couple in crises and the tri-generational family” in Couple therapy, multiple prospective.

• Van der Pas A. (ed.), interview to Maurizio Andolfi “Over. Wel of nit doordouwen” in Systeemtherapie, may 1991.

• Barletta J., interview to Maurizio Andolfi “An uncommon family therapist: a conversation with Maurizio Andolfi”, Australia, September 2000, in Contemporary Family Therapy-an international journal, vol. 23, n.2, June 2001.

Books:

• Andolfi M., Family therapy, an interactional approach, Plenum Press, New York, 1979.

• Andolfi M., Zwerling I. (eds.), Dimensions of family therapy, Guilford Press, New York, 1980.

• Andolfi M., Angelo C., Menghi P., Nicolò-Corigliano A. M., Behind the family mask: therapeutic change in rigid family systems, Brunner/Mazel, New York, 1983.

• Andolfi M., Angelo C., de Nichilo M., The myth of Atlas: families and therapeutic story, Brunner/Mazel, New York, 1989.

• Andolfi M., Haber R., (eds.), Please help me with this family, Brunner/Mazel, New York, 1994.

• Andolfi M., Calderón de La Barca L., The Oaxaca Book – Working with marginalized families and communities: professional in the trenches, Accademia di Psicoterapia della famiglia, Rome, 2008.