Dr Clara Mucci

Clara Mucci is a psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapist practicing in Milan and Pescara, Italy. She is Full Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Chieti, where she taught English Literature and Shakespearean Drama.

She received a PhD from Emory University, Atlanta, and was a fellow in 2005-2006 at the Institute of Personality Disorder, New York, directed by Otto Kernberg. The author of several monographs on Shakespeare, psychoanalysis and literary theory, she has taught in London (Westminster College), Atlanta, and New York (Hunter College).

She is author of the highly acclaimed book Beyond Individual and Collective Trauma: Intergenerational Transmission, Psychoanalytic Treatment, and the Dynamics of Forgiveness (Karnac, 2013), and Borderline Bodies: Affect Regulation Therapy for Personality Disorders (W. W. Norton, 2018). Her most recent book is Resilience and Survival: Understanding and Healing Intergenerational Trauma (Confer Books, 2022).