Lorena Preta is the Director of the International Research Group Geographies of Psychoanalysis. Full member of Italian Psychoanalytical Society (SPI) and of International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). Past Editor in chief of the journal Psyche (Journal of psychoanalysis and culture of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society) 2001-2009. Scientific consultant and director for many years of Spoletoscienza (Meetings of science and culture at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto).