Luisa Marino Coe

Luisa Marino Coe is a psychoanalyst, a psychotherapist and a clinical psychologist, member of the International Psychoanalytical Association (I.P.A.) and works in private practise in London. She started working at Padua University, Faculty of Psychology, as a Lecturer in 1998 on various researches in psychoanalysis and taught courses on: psychoanalysis, primary and advanced level, psychoanalytical models; she performed seminars on adolescence, psychosomatic theories, the mind/body relation in psychoanalysis. From 1998 to April 2012 she worked with severe psychiatric patients at the University Psychiatric Clinic of the Padua Hospital and from 2001 in therapeutic Residential Communities (Clinics) for drug addicted and dual diagnosis patients (someone who has both a co-occurring mental illness and a substance use problem: alcohol, heroin addicted, multiple chemical and drug addiction) as Group and individual Psychotherapist Psychoanalytically oriented.

She is past President of the International Psychoanalytical Studies Organisation (IPSO) and organized IPSO Congresses in Chicago (2009) and in Mexico City (2011), during IPA biannual Conferences and with the IPA China Committee prepared the 1st Asian Psychoanalytic Conference (www.ipaasia.cn) held in Beijing, October 2010. She participated in an international research in collaboration with the I.P.A. Committee on Psychoanalytical Prospective of Ageing of patients and psychoanalysts; with Gabriele Junkers (chair of the IPA Committee on ageing), Maria Teresa Hooke and others they presented these results during the European Psychoanalytical Federation Conferences in London (2010), Copenhagen (2011), Paris 2012, and during the International Psychoanalytical Association Conference in Mexico City in 2011. Together with IPSO Executive Committee we organised the

Arts as Cinema and poetry are also a passion and she wrote a poetry book called “Angolo di Stanza” (The room’s corner).