Selected PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Cosa ci fa restare insieme
Castellano, R., Velotti, P., & Zavattini G.C. (2014).
La teoria dell’attaccamento e gli esiti della relazione di coppia. Il Mulino, 2010]
What makes us stay together
Castellano, R., Velotti, P., & Zavattini G.C. (2014).
Attachment theory and couples outcomes. Karnac Books.
Una poltrona per tre
Castellano, R., & Bonucci C. (2017). (Eds). [Una poltrona per tre.
Pazienti e analista nella terapia di coppia]. Franco Angeli.
Selected Peer-reviewed Publications
- Castellano (2025). The psychoanalytic facet of attachment theory: Behind and beyond attachment disorganization. Psychoanalytic Psychology, July 2025. https://doi.org/10.1037%2Fpap0000556
- Tacchino, C., Castellano, R., Rogier, G., Cocchiaro, T., Dal Lago, A., Rago, R., Velotti, P. (2025). Attachment Dimensions and Infertility: Exploring Psychological Outcomes Through Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis. Journal of marital and Family Therapy,51(4). https://doi.org/10.11 /jmft.70073
- Velotti, P., Rogier, G., Castellano, R., Glielmo, E., Alajmo, V., & Zavattini, G.C. (2023). Cultural adaptation and validation of the Italian version of the current relationship interview. Frontiers in Psychology, 29 September 2023. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1250471
- Bizzi, F., Shmueli-Goetz, Y., Castellano, R., San Martini, P., & Cavanna, D. (2020). Psychometric Properties of the Child Attachment Interview in Italian Context: A focus on normative and specific clinical groups in school-aged Psychological Reports, February 2020. https://doi.org/10.1177/0033294120905515
- Bizzi, , Shmueli-Goetz, Y., Castellano, R., & Cavanna, D. (2018). A multi-assessment approach to attachment in middle childhood and early adolescence in two clinical groups. TPM, Testing, Psychometrics, methodology in Applied Psychology, 25(3), 409-427. https://doi.org/10.4473/TPM25.3.6
- Bizzi, , Cavanna, D., Castellano, R., & Pace, C.S. (2015). Children’s mental representations of the caregiver and post-traumatic symptomatology in Somatic Symptom Disorders and Disruptive Behaviour Disorders. Frontiers in Psychology, 03 August 2015. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01125
- Castellano, R., Velotti, P., Crowell, J.A., & Zavattini, G.C. (2013). The role of parents’ attachment configurations at childbirth on marital satisfaction and conflict Journal of Child and Family Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-013-9757-7
- Velotti, , Castellano, R., & Zavattini, G.C. (2011). Adjustment of couples following childbirth: The role of Generalized and Specific States of Mind in an Italian Sample. European Psychologist, 16(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000022
Selected Chapters
- Castellano, R., & Bonucci, C. (2017). [Convenzioni e pregiudizi. Il conflitto come espressione di bisogni d’oggetto-sé in competizione. In: R. Castellano & C. Bonucci (Eds) Una poltrona per tre. Pazienti e analista nella terapia di coppia]. Roma: Franco Angeli.
- Lichtenberg, J., Bonucci, C., & Castellano, R. (2017). [Capacità emergenti nell’infanzia e nella terapia di coppia. Una sinergia. In: R. Castellano & C. Bonucci (Eds). Una poltrona per tre. Pazienti e analista nella terapia di coppia]. Roma: Franco Angeli.
- Velotti, P., Cavanna, D., & Castellano, R. (2012). Spouses’ psychopathological distress and marital quality at childbirth: Theoretical and empirical current status. In S.R. Hall & G.M. Kelly (Eds). Childbirth Research: New Developments (pp. 1-37). New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.