Raffaele Bracalenti

Raffaele Bracalenti, doctor and psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapist, at the age of nineteen became a collaborator of Sandro Gindro - psychoanalyst and founder of the Psychoanalytic Institute for Social Research (IPRS) - working alongside him both in his clinical and research activities. Always interested in psychoanalysis in social contexts, he has been involved in the training of teachers, social workers, and educators. He is a founding member of the IPRS where he was vice president of the foundation until 2002 when he became president after the founder's death. In almost thirty years of research activity, his areas of interest have mainly been: minors (minors and deviance from the law, bullying, school dropout, foreign minors), restorative justice, immigration, discrimination, racism. He has held the position of Scientific Director and Coordinator in numerous National and European projects linked to childhood, adolescence, migration and integration. He teaches psychoanalysis at the School of Specialization in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of IREP. He has been a lecturer at the Catholic University of Milan in the Psychology of Intercultural Development. For the Department of Education Sciences of the University of Rome, he taught Orientation Measures for "vulnerable groups".