Education and career
1961–72: Italy
Medical Doctor, University La Sapienza, Rome
Child Psychiatry, University La Sapienza, Rome
1970–1974: United States
Nathan Ackerman encounter in New York
Maurizio Andolfi, during his residency in child psychiatry, visited Nathan Ackerman in New York in 1970 and he was profoundly inspired by him and this encounter changed the direction of his life.
Fulbright fellowship in Social Community Psychiatry
Two years later, he left Italy to further his family studies in the United States.
He lived in New York and Israel Zwerling the greatest social psychiatrist was his mentor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Andolfi worked as a social community psychiatrist doing home visits with a crisis intervention team and conducted a field research on how to prevent pre-delinquent behaviour with black and Puerto Rican teenagers in a public school in the South Bronx.
Studies and practice in Family Therapy:
- Ackerman Institute for the family in New York with the supervision of Kitty LaPerriere and Peggy Papp
- Child Guidance Clinic in Philadelphia, under the supervision of Salvador Minuchin and Jay Haley
- Murray Bowen Georgetown University in Washington
- James Framo in Philadelphia
- Carl Whitaker University in Madison, Wisconsin
All of them had been very influential too in the Andolfi’s development as a teacher and clinician.
Karen Horney Psychoanalytic school in New York
Andolfi was a candidate, did his training and personal psychoanalysis with Helen De Rosis.
During the years 1988-1991: Visiting Professor Hanheman Medical College – Dpt in Psychiatry, Dean Israel Zwerling.
1975: Back to Italy
Istituto di Terapia Familiare (I.T.F.), 1975-1992
Upon his return from the United States in 1975, Maurizio Andolfi founded and directed the Family Therapy Institute in Via Reno, Rome for several years, teaching family therapy with Carmine Saccu, who would become the Institute’s first teacher, and several other colleagues.
These were very important years, in which Andolfi’ main ideas developed in Italy and many colleagues attended international Practicum and the work on professional handicaps was experimented.
Full professor Dpt. Clinican Psychology, University La Sapienza, Rome till his retirement in 2012
Andolfi has been teaching family development and family therapy for 40 years, taking care of the education of thousands of students in clinical Psychology
Director Accademia di Psicoterapia della Famiglia since 1993
Editor in chief Italian Journal Terapia Familiare since 1977
Founder the Silvano Andolfi Foundation (1989)
2012: Australia
Distinguish Talent Title from The Australian Government
Visiting Fellow Cowen Edith University (Perth Wa)
Visiting Fellow Cook University (Cairns-Queelsland)
Director the Perth Circle – For the advancement of family therapy in Western Australia
Feel free to write to prof. Andolfi at m.andolfi@familytherapyacademy.com