Cosimo Schinaia is a psychiatrist who worked as Director of Mental Health Centre of Central Genoa for many years. He is a training and supervising psychoanalyst of SPI (Italian Psychoanalytical Society) and a full member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He has published many scientific papers for both Italian and international journals and books, including ' Dal Manicomio alla Citta'; 'Il Cantiere delle Idee'; and 'Pedofilia Pedofilie: La Psicoanalisi e il Mondo del Pedofilo'. He currently lives and works in private practice in Genoa.
