Franca Tani, psychologist and psychoanalyst, member of the International Psychoanalytical Association., is full professor of Developmental Psychology at the Department of Health Sciences of the University of Florence, Italy, and from 2017 to 2020 she has been dean of the School of Psychology of the same University. She has been also: - in 2014 2015 and 2016, External Examiner of Tavistock/University of East London PG Dip/MA in Psychoanalytic Observational Studies (M7) e Infant Mental Healt (M9); • from 2014 to 2019 scientific director of the Scientific Committee of the Interdepartmental Research Unit on “New social pathologies” in the University Florence. Moreover, from 2017 till now she’s member of the Regional Observatory on “Gambling Addiction” of the Tuscany Region, Italy, and member of Permanent National Observatory of EURISPES on “Gambling: legality and pathologies”