Selected Presentations at psychoanalytic congresses

  1. Castellano, R. (2025). Dialogare sulla soglia: Perdita e creatività. Paper presented at the 16th ISIPSÉ National Congress, “Le soglie della terapia: Intersoggettività e attaccamento nell’incontro clinico. 22-23th February, Rome.
  2. Castellano, R. (2024). Possible and impossible separations: Losing the bond or losing the Self? Paper presented at the 45th IAPSP International Congress, “The tragic person today: Existence and meaning in life and clinical practice”. 24-27th October, Rome.
  3. Castellano, R., & Bonucci, C. (2023). La cognizione dell’impossibile, l’esperienza del realizzabile: Appartenenza e espulsione nella terapia di coppia. Paper presented at the 15th ISIPSÉ National Congress, “Psiche ama, Psiche che trama: Molteplicità dell’intelligenza e dell’amore nel tragico e nella psicoanalisi contemporanea”, Ortigia, Siracusa, IT.
  4. Castellano, R. (2022). Abbandonarsi alla perdita di speranza come possibilità emergente. Paper presented at the 14th ISIPSÉ National Congress, “Vulnerabilità, incertezza e rabbia. Il lavoro psicoanalitico come custode della speranza”,

Selected peer-reviewed International research posters

  1. Bizzi, , Castellano, R., & Cavanna D. (2016). Disruptive behavior disorders and somatic symptoms disorders. Which strategies of emotion regulation children and their parent’s use? At the ‘24th European Congress of Psychiatry’. Madrid, 12-15 March. European Psychiatry, 33S, S424. DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.1221.
  2. Bizzi, F., Castellano, R., & Cavanna D. (2016). Continuity of attachment in children with disruptive behavior disordes and in their parents: a pilot study. At the ‘24th European Congress of Psychiatry’. Madrid, 12-15 March. European Psychiatry, 33S, S424. DOI: 1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.1220.
  3. Bizzi, F., Castellano, R., & Cavanna, D. (2015). Children with somatic symptom disorders: is attachment investigation a key aspect for the diagnostic and intervention process? At the ‘23rd World Congress on Psychosomatic Medicine (ICPM)’, Glasgow. The Supplement of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 84 (Suppl 1), 1-82. https://doi.org/10.1159/000438780
  4. Bizzi, F., Castellano, R., & Cavanna, D. (2014). Post-traumatic symptomatology and attachment models among children and adolescents with somatic symptom disorder. At the ‘V Congress of the European Academy of Pediatric Societies (EAPS)’, Barcelona, 17-21 Archives of Disease in Childhood, 99(Suppl 2): 557-558. DOI:10.1136/archdischild-2014-307384.1560
  5. Castellano, R., & Velotti, P. (2013). The representation of the physician‐patient relationship in medically assisted At the ‘22nd World Congress on Psychosomatic Medicine (ICPM)’, Lisbon, 12‐14 September. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 82 (Suppl. 1), 17. DOI: 10.1159/000354142.
  6. Velotti, , Castellano, R., Vari, C., & Garofalo, C. (2013). The impact of the diagnostic investigations of infertility: The association between emotion regulation and coping strategies. At the ‘22nd World Congress on Psychosomatic Medicine (ICPM)’, Lisbon, 12‐14 September. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 82 (Suppl. 1), 120. DOI: 10.1159/000354142.
  7. Velotti, , Castellano, R., & Cavanna D. (2012,). Aggressive and self- harm behaviors in adolescents: the role of emotion regulation. At the ‘4th Congress of
the European Academy of Paediatric Societies (EAPS)’, Istanbul, 5-9 October. Archives of
Disease in Childhood, 97, 2: 43.
  8. Castellano, R., & Velotti, P. (2008). Couple’s attachment and adjustment to the transition to parenthood. At the ‘29th International Congress of Psychology’, Germany. International Journal of Psychology