EMILIO MORDINI
Emilio Mordini (Orcid ID: 0000-0003-3569-4391) is a practicing psychoanalyst and psychiatrist in San Vito al Tagliamento (PN). His clinical interests encompass the full range of psychological and mental disorders. His scientific interests are centered on the relationships between the individual, the collective imaginary, and the social unconscious, as well as the notion of Einheitpsychose. The term "Einheitpsychose" refers to a recently revived perspective that posits that various psychopathologies are expressions of a single fundamental disorder. Emilio Mordini is a member of the Ethics and Deontology Committee of the Medical Association of Pordenone, where he serves as scientific director. He is currently serving as a court-appointed technical consultant (CTU) at The Court of Pordenone. Since 2021, he has served as the scientific director of NORIA, a non-profit association based in Friuli.
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Emilio Mordini was born in Rome on June 5, 1956. He completed his medical studies cum laude at La Sapienza University in Rome in 1981. He obtained his subspecialty certification in gastroenterology in 1985 under the tutelage of Aldo Torsoli. Concurrently, he engaged in psychoanalytic training under the supervision of Sandro Gindro at the Psychoanalytic Institute for Social Research (IPRS). Notably, he was among the inaugural cohort of medical psychotherapists to be licensed by the Medical Association of Rome (no. 69). He subsequently maintained his professional affiliation with the IPRS, working in the capacity of a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist until the year 2001. Concurrently, in 1994, he completed his philosophical studies at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum) in Rome. From 2016 to 2019, he participated in Alain Touraine's seminar, "Modern Societies and the Political Reconstruction of Hypermodern Western Societies," at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris.
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From 1994 to 2003, Emilio Mordini served as an adjunct professor at the Second School of Specialization in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Rome La Sapienza, where he taught bioethics. During the aforementioned period, he fulfilled the role of member and scientific secretary of the Bioethics Commission of the National Research Council (CNR). Concurrently, he served as a member of the Bioethics Commission of the Medical Association of Rome, in addition to assuming the positions of treasurer and secretary general of the European Association of Centers Medical Ethics (EACME). Emilio Mordini was a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Bioethics (IAB), a member of the Ethics Committee, and a lecturer in ethics courses at the Italian Society of Psychiatry (SIP). Furthermore, he has taught courses in bioethics and psychoanalysis at various Italian and foreign universities. Emilio Mordini served as director of the Center for Science, Society, and Citizenship (CSSC) in Rome from 2002 to 2013. During this period, he participated as principal investigator or coordinator in more than thirty international research projects promoted by the European Commission. Mordini also directed two workshops of NATO's Science for Peace program. Concurrently, he participated in various expert committees of the European Commission and its agencies.
From 2014 to 2020, he assumed the role of managing director at Responsible Technology, a Paris-based consultancy. He served as a member of the European Technology Assessment Group - ETAG (2014-2019), Academic Supervisor and Professor at the Universitäre Fernstudien Schweiz (2016-2019). From 2016 to 2023, he held the position of research fellow at the Health and Risk Communication Center, which is affiliated with the University of Haifa in Israel. In the European Union, he is a member of the CERIS Expert Group (Community for European Research and Innovation for Security). Since 1996, he has participated in approximately eighty project evaluation and review panels in the European Commission's RTD framework programs.
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Emilio Mordini is a member of various scientific societies, including the Italian Society of Psychiatry (SIP), the Italian Society of Forensic Psychiatry (SIPF), the Association of Medical Hypnosis (AIM), and the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry (AAPP). He serves as the associate editor of the Springerbrief in Ethics series, with a particular focus on the Technology Ethics series. He serves on the editorial boards of numerous international scientific journals, including the Journal of Ethics in Mental Health, IET Biometrics, Somatotechnics, and the Revue Française d'éthique appliquée. He has published extensively, with over 160 articles and monographs appearing in international scientific journals, in addition to numerous popular articles. He has also edited fourteen collective volumes. He is a distinguished international keynote speaker.
