Stefano Ferrari

Stefano Ferrari teaches Psychology of Art at the Department of the Arts of Bologna University. He has been head of Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Storico Artistici since 2010. His studies concern the relations among art, literature, psychology and psychoanalysis, with particular interest in the psychological dynamics of self-representation, both in literarature (writing autobiographical) and in the artistic field (portrait, self-portrait). He is president of the Emilia Romagna Section of the International Association for Art and Psychology (http://www.artepsicologia.com/) which has its headquarters at the Department of Arts of Bologna University. In 2010 he founded “PsicoArt”, an online magazine of art and psychology. The magazine hosts and promotes interdisciplinary studies and research, both historical and methodological, on the different relationships among arts, literature, psychology and psychoanalysis. He was also the founder and director of “Quaderni di PsicoArt” series of monographs on line, which is also hosted on the platform AMS Acta Alma DL University of Bologna.

Stefano Ferrari teaches Psychology of Art at the Department of the Arts of Bologna University. He has been head of Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Storico Artistici since 2010. His studies concern the relations among art, literature, psychology and psychoanalysis. He is president of the Emilia Romagna Section of the International Association for Art and Psychology (http://www.artepsicologia.com/) which has its headquarters at the Department of Arts of Bologna University. In 2010 he founded “PsicoArt”, an online magazine of art and psychology. He was also the founder and director of “Quaderni di PsicoArt”, series of monographs on line.