Raffaele De Luca Picione, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Dynamic Psychology at the Giustino Fortunato University, specializing in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. His research focuses on subjectivity, affectivity, mind modeling and semiotic boundaries, temporality and meaning-building processes from a psychoanalytic and semiotic perspective. He carried out research periods at Clark University (Massachusetts - USA) in 2012, and Aalborg University (Denmark) in 2015. In 2019 he was invited to the Universidad del Desarollo in Santiago de Chile to give a series of lectures on his research fields.