Alessandro Germani, PhD, is a psychologist and associate professor of clinical psychology at the Università Giustino Fortunato, Benevento, Italy. He teaches clinical and health psychology, psychological counseling and psychosomatic medicine; also, he is the head of the university counseling service. With regard to education background, he achieved a master's degree in psychobiology and cognitive neuroscience at the Università di Parma, Italy, and both a bachelor's degree in psychology and PhD at the Università di Perugia, Italy. He is in training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Istituto Winnicott of Roma, Italy. He was formerly employed at the Criminological Analysis Department of the Raggruppamento Carabinieri Investigazioni Scientifiche of Rome, Italy, where he has dealt with psychological autopsy in cases of equivocal deaths. He is interested in training and prevention of suicidal behaviors. He is member of the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis, the Society for Personality Assessment, the Associazione Italiana di Psicologia and the Society for Psychotherapy Research. His research focuses on clinical-dynamic psychology, psychosomatic medicine, and the bodily self, exploring attachment, interoception, alexithymia, and emotion regulation across the lifespan and cultures, as well as mind-body interventions for psychological distress.