Prof. Dr. Renata Tambelli is a full professor of childhood psychopathology at the Department of Dynamic, Clinical and Health Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome. She is the president and founding member of the Italian Society for Research and Clinical and Perinatal Intervention and an ordinary member of the Section of Clinical-Dynamic Psychology of the Italian Association of Psychology. She is a member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and the International Psychoanalytical Association; she is also a member of the Italian Association for Infant Mental Health and the World Association for Infant Mental Health. Her scientific activity addresses the topics of developmental psychopathology, maternal representations, maternal and paternal depression, and attachment.