Antonella Ivaldi is a training analyst at the psychotherapy postgraduate program of the LUMSA University, the Institute of Relational Psychoanalysis and Self Psychology (ISIPSÉ), and the School of Cognitive Psychotherapy. She is also Member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy, the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and the Italian Society of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy.

Treating Dissociative and Personality Disorders draws on major theorists and the very latest research to help formulate and introduce the Relational/Multi-Motivational Therapeutic Approach (REMOTA), a new model for treating such patients within a clinical psychoanalytic setting.

Foreword by Giovanni Liotti. Foreword by Joseph D. Lichtenberg. Introduction.1 Theorizing About Theory. 2 Theoretical Foundations. 3 The Therapeutic Relationship from the Theoretical Perspective of Motivational Systems. 4 Complex Trauma Theories and Psychopathology: The Difficult Patient. 5 Personality Disorders: Diagnosis and Treatment. 6 The Relational/ Multi Motivational Therapeutic Approach (REMOTA). 7 Some Methodological Considerations on Outcome Research In Psychotherapy and Results of a Naturalistic Study in the Treatment of Patients with Severe Axis I/Ii Comorbidity Disorders. 8 Group Psychotherapy: Addressing Impediments to Engaging the Affiliative Motivational System.