Dr. Paolo Cotrufo is an associate professor of Clinical Psychology and head of the Post-Graduate degree in “Clinical Psychology” in the Department of Psychology at the University of Campania “L. Vanvitelli”. He graduated with a degree in clinical psychology from the University of Padua in 1994 and received his Ph.D. in behavioral sciences in 1998 at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Campania “L. Vanvitelli”. He is also a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association since 2007. Additionally, he works as a psychotherapist and a psychoanalyst, both in private practice and in his department as the Director of the Psychotherapeutic public. His main fields of research are eating disorders, the body/mind relationship, psychoanalysis, preventive intervention, body modifications, and self-injurious behaviors.