Flavia Donati, MD, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist

I had my medical degree and my specialisation in psychiatry in Milan, Italy.
I worked for 9 years in London in innovative hospital and community mental health settings and in an experimental psychotherapeutic community for young borderline adults.
I moved back to Italy in Rome where I did my psychoanalytic training with the SPI (Società di Psicoanalisi Italiana).
I was part for 17 years of the medical services of two UN agencies based in Rome with worldwide offices as their staff psychological counsellor, while also working in my private studio with young adults and adults, parental and marital guidance, crisis management, burn-out and work issues, complexities of adjustment to moving countries alone or with families, universal personal struggles with anxiety, depression, loss, panic, PTSD, intra and interpersonal difficulties.
Lately I trained with EMDR with EMDR Italia
My purpose is to promote understanding and self-knowledge in a safe and protective environment so that the individual, the couple, the family can improve their well-being.
Publications: in the British Journal of Psychotherapy (1989, 5. 317-329) a paper “A Psychoanalytic Observer in a Chronic Hospital Ward” and chapter in the book “Observing Organizations” by Routledge in 2000 translated into Italian in 2005 by Ananke. In Argonauti June 2004 “L’ Esperto in Difficoltà con il Giornalista, la Sua Notizia ed il Lettore” and in Quaderni degli Argonauti December 2010 “Pensare nei Gironi Infernali”. And various interventions in conferences on human rights and mental health.