Humanity in Psychology The Intellectual Legacy of Pina

Boggi Cavallo

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Prof. Pina Boggi Cavallo (Deceased)
“Fare ricerca significa inventarsi altre domande per cercare altre risposte e andare
alla ricerca di luoghi dove queste risposte si possono trovare”.
“Doing research means inventing further questions, striving for further answers, and
looking for places where those answers can be found.” (Boggi Cavallo, 2018,
pp. 35–36)

Reference

Boggi Cavallo, P. (2018). Interview. In Valerio, P., Fazzari, P., & Galdo, A. (Eds). Lo sviluppo
della Psicologia a Napoli e in Campania dal 1950 ad oggi. [The development of psychology
in Naples and in Campania Region from 1950 to present] (pp. 32–37). Ordine degli Psicologi
della Campania.

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Foreword

I am very happy, proud and grateful to all the psychologists who contributed to this
book. The gratitude is even greater to the editors, who asked me to prepare a
foreword for the book about my mother, Pina Boggi Cavallo.
It’s not easy to tell about oneself, and this difficulty may be easily projected also
on one’s close relatives. In that, if you have to tell something about them, probably,
you are also telling something about yourself, looping back to the difficulty that I
mentioned above.
So, I decided to divide this text in two – hopefully synthetic – parts: one on her
personal and family life, and another on her academic and scientific life.

I have some connections with both of them.

Her personal and family life wasn’t as happy as it could have been appeared. As
she told me many times, in 1943, she was a 10-year-old girl escaped with her family
from the town of Salerno, which was being heavily bombed by the Allies during the
preparation for Operation Avalanche, the landing that opened the road to the
liberation of Italy from the Nazi-fascist occupation.
When she and her family came back, they found their house – that was along a
railway, so near a relevant tactical target – destroyed. The only thing spared by the
building’s collapse under the bombs was a porcelain coffee pot that she found in the
ruins, perfectly intact, and kept for all her life, as one of her dearest items. I think
this trauma conditioned all her life, even because her tale was invariably concluded
with the description of herself desperately crying in front of the ruins, and no one of
her adults – father, mother and two older brothers – giving to her a single word of
comfort.
So, Pina developed a strong sense of home and family, followed by a strong
connection with my father, notwithstanding their sometimes stormy relationship. She
cared a lot to be called with her double surname “Boggi Cavallo”, signing all her
publications with both surnames, sometimes reversing them: for her “Boggi
Cavallo” was the same as “Cavallo Boggi”.

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Even after my father passed away, she used to say of herself “I am Pina Boggi
Cavallo, not Pina Boggi widow Cavallo”. Unfortunately, her relatives disrespected
this at her funeral announcement, and they tried to establish a foundation using her
name, which I forbid them.
More than once she was offered a candidacy to a nearly certain election to
Parliament, but refused: she had a diffident relationship with power, considering
politics as any other public occupation, something to be made with spirit of service,
and the majority of the political class was not held in great esteem by her.

Having met and known many public figures in many different settings, cultural and
social events, meetings and conferences, having been for years a member of the
Juvenile Court of Salerno, the President of the Music Conservatory of Salerno and
a consultant for many political authorities, she ended up describing them with the
expression: “every great man is a poor man”.
On the academic and scientific front, she considered the three activities, teaching,
research and social engagement, as the three parts of one big, single and unitary job,
the Science, in which her ideal was to consider the Human Being in its totality.
Once again, her personal and family experiences produced an outcome into her
scientific life: her attention for the feminine condition as research topic came from
her experience as a daughter, synthesized in a sentence by her father Paolo (my
name comes from the conjunction of my two grandfathers’ names), that she many
times reminded me. It was “tu sì femmena, e nun può stà senza fà niente”, which
translates as “you are a female and you can’t stay doing nothing”: this expresses, in
my opinion very clearly, the cultural setting in which she grew, and from which she
had to emerge to pursue and achieve her ideas.
I am not going to talk about her research, because it is the “raison d’etre” of the
present book, I am not a psychologist and my research work has a different focus,
even if, probably, the roots are the same. In fact, my interest in the scientific research
began when I was 14 or so, as I worked to prepare the sheets to tabulate the data for
some of her research projects, using pen, ruler and squared paper.
I used to hear conversations about mean, chi-square, and a few years later, when
I was a Medicine student, I began to study and (partly) understand those subjects.
Later on, my curiosity progressively turned from the “wet” sciences of laboratory to
the “dry” land of the complexity and its science applied to Public Health. So,
probably, I too have arrived to consider the health and its management processes as
a holistic environment: same roots, different foliage.

She worked in academic institutions for more than 40 years, and some episodes of
disappointment happened, the most scorching, probably, being the fact that a
Psychology program was not created at the University of Salerno, due to the lack of
political willingness to do that. As I am writing these words, in the first weeks of the
year 2021, the obstacles have been probably overcome, and the Psychology
Program will likely open, which – I hope – will be good news for her, wherever
she is now.
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Finally, I have to write about the most important part of her life: her students,
some of whom – with her greatest happiness – became coworkers and colleagues.
I need not to list their names, as I fear to forget someone, and am also sure that
they are already listed between the authors of this book, including someone who,
unfortunately, is no longer with us.
In my opinion, but I am not so far from the truth, the message that Pina Boggi
Cavallo may have sent to all of us, each in its uniqueness but all connected by the
common substrate of joining the growth and strength of the Science with the limits
and the weaknesses of the Human Being, is simple: keep studying, keep thinking,
keep pushing ahead the borders of our knowledge: it’s always worth it.

University of Salerno Pierpaolo Cavallo

Fisciano, Salerno, Italy
[email protected]
Preface: Compassion for Knowledge

For us humans, being is crucial, and being a woman is a privilege. Despite the many
centuries of stigmatization, suppression of desires, enforcement of life courses into
marriages, or convent communities—not to speak of sexual and psychological
assaults—the role of women in our lives is central as each of us. We sometimes
forget that we are born once, through the hard work of labour by a woman who by
that becomes a mother to whom one brings all the childish little revolts against the
injustices of the world, and whose importance is felt all through one’s life.
However, women are not just mothers—they are the carriers of human cultural
heritage across generations. They are creators of new ways of dealing with the
mundane issues of everyday life, as well as passionate innovators once they decide
to act in new ways. Despite all limitations put on them over centuries in striving
towards knowledge, they succeed—and give birth to new ideas that are carefully
woven into the textures of humanity. This book is precisely about humanity—
through the life-long efforts of one particularly dedicated person.
This book is about Pina—her consistent and compassionate search for knowing
across the study of history of medicine and the possible role that psychology might
play in human society. It is her own personal world—set up in the academic
domain—that is the arena for her feminine identity. Efforts to force it into other
frames—exemplified by the tradition of taking over the husband’s last name—do
not impinge upon the intellectual freedom of the woman. So adding Cavallo to
Boggi as a formal reverence to the marriage customs did not—and would not—stop
Pina being herself. Pina remains Pina! It is not a coincidence that Boggi Cavallo was
deeply interested in another remarkable woman in European history of literary
scholarship and psychoanalysis—Lou Andreas-Salome. It is the deep intellectual
desire that let Andreas-Salome to reject most men’s naïve proposals to marry her,
preferring intellectual companionship to that of the bliss of marriage, its frictions,
and surrenders. In that insistence on her own way of being a woman, Andreas-­
Salome faced all the usual range of social rejection from malicious gossips to
outright disapprovals. Yet she persisted, and lived a life in accordance with her deep
feminine desires that transcended the traditional gender roles of her time. The same

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is the case for Pina Boggi Cavallo who sometimes paid tribute to her husband—by
naming herself Cavallo Boggi in the reversal of her original last name in some of her
publications. Yet her intellectual autonomy and deep care for relevant ideas remained
her own. The reader of this volume gets a glimpse of that persistence of ideas in the
translations into English of her work.
Boggi Cavallo’s concern for humanity finds its best expression in her evaluation
of the social role of psychology in real life (Chap. 6) as irrelevant research. Bringing
traditional psychological methods—questionnaires of the form of opinion polls—to
the site of all the devastations of a recent earthquake. The reality of the disaster was
ignored and replaced by the “collection of data” for the purposes of applied research.
No doubt such research practices continue at our present time as superficial rating
scales addressed towards all kinds of evaluation objects have captured the social
sciences with intensity comparable to that of locusts attacking crops in African
cultivated fields. So—as Boggi Cavallo’s humane look at the horrors of an earthquake
show—human beings are attacked both by nature (earthquake) and society
(psychologists doing applied research, and journalists trying to report the “opinions”
of the victims).
Love starts from somewhere and someone, but it inhabits the cosmos (Traversa,
chapter 11). The “cosmos” for Boggi Cavallo was her students who picked up from
her not only the meaningful ways of doing research, but more importantly the
general feeling into the roles that psychologists play in real-life communities.
Recognition of this major contribution is felt in the description of the feelings of
former students in this volume. The legacy of Pina Boggi Cavallo lives on through
new generations of seekers of serious meaning embedded in everyday life-worlds.
What would be the relevance of this volume for the international psychological
community around the world—the audience of this book series? First of all, it is a
historical account of the relevance of personal persistence—by a woman or a man—
upon making one’s research and teaching both personally and socially meaningful.
This focus of meaningful work in psychology has often been abandoned in the
recent decades in favour of “measures” of “professional success” in gaining
institutional research grants or “points” in institutional concursus via publications
in “the right” places. Personal academic independence becomes hindered through
the conformity to the institutional “standards of excellence”. We might benefit from
not considering these standards for real excellence—which is demonstrated by the
life and work of Pina Boggi Cavallo.
Secondly, we all can learn to consider the unity of knowledge across history and
that of our present psychological investigations. The eleventh-century account of
women’s lives should help us re-adjust the widespread cross-sectional interest in
gender—moving it from the study of “gender differences” to that of gender-based
resilience. As the present volume demonstrates based on the example of Pina—
women are strong, capable of highly innovative scientific advancements, precisely
because they make the most of being women—rather than adjusting to ephemeral
male roles in “leadership” in various institutions.

Aalborg, Denmark Jaan Valsiner

Contents

1 
Enchantment of the Mind: The Salernitan Questions��������������������������    1
Luca Tateo and Giuseppina Marsico

Part I Sowing
2 Field-Dependence: A Strong Theoretical Model ����������������������������������   17
Pina Boggi Cavallo
3 
Women and Popular Medicine����������������������������������������������������������������   25
Pina Cavallo Boggi
4 
Parents, Children, and the Third Age: The Needs of the Elderly��������   35
Pina Boggi Cavallo and Michele Cesaro
5 
Lou Andreas-Salomè: On Women and Psychoanalysis������������������������   43
Pina Boggi Cavallo
6 
The Earthquake and the Psycho-­Sociological Research����������������������   51
Pina Boggi Cavallo

Part II Fertilizing
7 
The Field-Dependence: A Strong Theoretical Model: A Review ��������   61
Nadia Dario
8 An Overview of Mind-Wandering According to Boggi’s
Approach and Interests ��������������������������������������������������������������������������   67
Gerhard Stemberger and Nadia Dario
9 Contemporary Considerations on “Donna e Medicina
Popolare”, by Pina Cavallo Boggi (1981) ����������������������������������������������   99
Lívia Mathias Simão

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10 
Comment on Pina Boggi Cavallo and Michele Cesaro’s “Parents,
Children, and the Third Age: The Needs of Older People” ���������������� 107
Isabelle Albert
11 
Lou Andreas-Salomé: Which Woman? Which Body? Whose
Narcissism? ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 117
Rosa Traversa
12 Yearning for Home: Place, Loss, and New Paradigms
of Psychological Practice ������������������������������������������������������������������������ 123
Paul Rhodes, Ruth Wells, Robert Brockman, Merle Conyer,
and Maria Nichterlein

Part III Cultivating
13 Pina Boggi Cavallo: The Person, the Scientific Intuitions,
the Pioneering Value, and the Intellectual Legacy of Her
Contributions�������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 145
Dino Giovannini
14 In Search of an Experiment: From Vygotsky to Lewin
and Dembo and Back to the Future ������������������������������������������������������ 159
Annalisa Sannino and Yrjö Engeström
15 Fostering Mentalizing Communities������������������������������������������������������ 179
Antonella Marchetti and Edoardo Alfredo Bracaglia
16 
Pina Boggi Cavallo and My “Southern Italian Gesture Project”�������� 189
Adam Kendon
17 
Smiling: Positive and Negative Emotions, Personal and Social
Attitudes���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 209
Roberto Caterina, Pier Luigi Garotti, and Pio Enrico Ricci-Bitti
18 The Attention to Student Well-Being: The University
Psychological Counseling������������������������������������������������������������������������ 225
Giulia Savarese, Nadia Pecoraro, Oreste Fasano, Monica Mollo,
and Luna Carpinelli

Index������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 237
About the Contributors

Isabelle Albert is a research scientist at the Institute for Lifespan Development,

Family and Culture, University of Luxembourg, and deputy study director of the
Master in Gerontology. She studied psychology at the Universities of the Saarland
(Germany), Bologna (Italy) and Trier (Germany), and she received her PhD degree
from the University of Konstanz (Germany). In her research, she focusses on indi-
vidual and social development in a (cross)cultural, life-span and family perspective
with major contributions to the areas of transgenerational family relations, resil-
ience of older people and subjective well-being in the context of ageing. In recent
projects, she focusses on intergenerational family relations in the light of migration
and ageing, active ageing in the context of cultural diversity, and migrant youth
integration. She is member and past convenor of the EFPA SC on Geropsychology
and president-elect of the ESFR-European Society on Family Relations. Faculty of
Humanities, Education and Social Sciences Department of Behavioural and
Cognitive Sciences UNIVERSITÉ DU LUXEMBOURG [email protected]

Edoardo Alfredo Bracaglia Research Unit on Theory of Mind, Department of

Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. Clinical psychologist and
lecturer of Developmental Psychology and Educational Psychology, Università
Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano. His clinical interests centre on the relationship
between attachment and mentalization, ACE and trauma awareness, as well as fos-
tering mentalization in children and adults, from a systemic perspective. Member of
the AIP section Developmental Psychology and Education, APA, ISSBD
International Society for the Study of Behavioural Neurodevelopment, ATN
Attachment and Trauma Network. E-mail: [email protected]

Robert Brockman is an Aboriginal academic and trainer in schema therapy. From

2010 to 2017, Robert’s work life consisted of supervising and lecturing on Clinical
Psychology Masters programs (Western Sydney University; University of
Technology) and running a small private practice. This practice has evolved into
Schema Therapy Sydney the first schema therapy focused private practice to be
established in Sydney. Rob has been affiliated with Schema Therapy Training

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Australia for the past 5 years and now regularly provides accredited schema train-
ings across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Luna Carpinelli, Ph.D., is a psychologist and cognitive-behavioural psychothera-

pist. Currently, research fellow at the Department of Medicine and Surgery,
University of Salerno (Italy). Her research interests are related to clinical develop-
mental psychology, with a focus on eating disorders, prevention of child sexual
abuse and strategies for promoting personal well-being and empowerment.

Roberto Caterina, Ph.D., is an associate professor of General Psychology at the

University of Bologna. He is a member of the Escom (European Society for the
Cognitive Science of Music). He is interested in the emotional regulation processes
especially in therapeutic contexts. Art therapy is one of his specific interests. On that
subject he has published several papers in the international as well as in the Italian
scientific literature. Contact: [email protected]

Pina Boggi Cavallo Medical Doctor, specialist in Nuclear Medicine (University of

Naples “Federico II”)., Master in Management and Health Administration
(University “Luigi Bocconi”, Milan), ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems Lead
Auditor (IRCA, UK), Post-graduate in Environmental Policy (University of
Salerno).Assistant Professor of Public Health, Department of Physics
“E.R. Caianiello”, University of Salerno. Guest Scholar, IMT – Institute for
Advanced Studies, Lucca (2015), Research Associate, ISC-CNR – Complex
Systems Institute. Research interests: Public Health, Epidemiology. Complex
Systems, Network Science and Big Data in Public Health. Environment and Health.
Personal information and web pages: http://docenti.unisa.it/005740/home; http://
orcid.org/0000–0003–3111-­5241

Merle Conyer is a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor. She walks alongside

individuals, communities, service providers and organizations responding to trauma,
healing and justice. This includes counselling for adults, debriefing and clinical
supervision, wellbeing support and training for professionals, teams, community
groups and activists and bespoke trauma-informed EAP services

Nadia Dario is a postdoc at the ASLAN lab at CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure
de Lyon, Université Lyon 2, Lyon, France. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and
Educational Science from Ca′ Foscari University of Venice and has worked with
Lab Red “Laboratorio di Ricerca Educativa e Didattica” in Ca′ Foscari University
and has written on “FORMAZIONE & INSEGNAMENTO. European Journal of
Research on Education and Teaching”. Her previous research interests were time
estimation (prospective memory), emotions and decision making, taking into
account the implications in learning-teaching contexts. She has also worked on
didactics for competences and her training was centred on General Pedagogy and
Psychology of Education. Her research interests are generative processes for devel-
oping praxis and research on education. Presently, she is concentrating her research
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on mind-wandering and visual-marginalia. She is also collaborating with Center of

Excellence, IBEF (Ideas for the Basic Education of the Future – International
Network on Innovative Learning, Teaching Environments and Practices) and GRIS
(Gruppo di Ricerca sulle Interazioni Sociali – Laboratorio di Psicologia “Giovanni
Abignente”) with Professors Pina Marsico and Luca Tateo. Email: nadia.dario@
ens-­lyon.fr Postal Address: 15, parvis René Descartes, 69007, Lyon, France

Yrjö Engeström is Professor Emeritus of Education at University of Helsinki,

Finland, and Professor Emeritus of Communication at University of California, San
Diego, USA. He is director of the Center for Research on Activity, Development
and Learning (CRADLE) in Helsinki, and visiting professor at Rhodes University,
South Africa, and University West, Sweden. Engeström applies and develops cul-
tural-historical activity theory and the theory of expansive learning in studies of
transformations in education, work and communities. He is known for the method-
ology of formative interventions and the Change Laboratory. His recent books
include Learning by Expanding (2nd Edition, 2015), Studies in Expansive Learning
(2016) and Expertise in Transition (2018), all published by Cambridge
University Press.

Oreste Fasano, Ph.D., is a psychologist and psychotherapist. He worked at the

Psychological Counselling Center of the University of Salerno (Italy).

Pier Luigi Garotti formerly associate professor of Interpersonal Communication

Technique and Psychology of Sport at the University of Bologna. His main research
fields are related to communication and regulation of emotion; psychology of sport;
physician-patient relationship. He has published several papers in the international
as well as in the Italian scientific literature. He is member of A.I.S.C.N.V. (Italian
Society on Non Verbal Communication); A.I.P (Italian Society of Psychology);
SIPSA (Italian Health Psychology Society). Contact: [email protected]

Dino Giovannini (b. 1945) is Emeritus Professor of Social Psychology at the

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE, Italy), a position he has held
since 2017. He began his academic career at the Alma Mater Studiorum University
of Bologna and then became full professor at the University of Trento in 1994. In
November 2002 he moved to the UNIMORE in the Faculty of Communication and
Economic. He was a member of the Faculty of Education (now Department of
Education and Human Sciences, DESU) from 2005, where he founded and directed
the RIMILab (Research Centre on Interethnic Relations, Multiculturality and
Immigration). During his academic career, he taught social psychology, psychology
of group processes, theories and techniques of psychological interview, applied psy-
chology, clinical psychology, community psychology and psychology of attitudes
and opinions. He was visiting researcher in several national and international uni-
versities, both as member of research groups (Laboratoire de Psychobiologie de
l’Enfant de Paris, 1973, 1974, 1975; Department of Psychology of Oxford
University, 1976; Department of Psychology of Bristol University, 1979; Birkbeck
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College, London, 1979) and as visiting professor (e.g., Universities of Maryland,

USA; René Descartes-­ Paris V, France; Dundee, Scotland, UK; St. Andrews,
Scotland, UK; Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, USA). He was a member of the
founding group of the Italian Psychological Association (AIP) in 1992, of which he
is currently an honorary member, and he was the first national coordinator of its
Social Psychology Section (1996–1998). He has been member of the European
Association of Social Psychology since 1980. His research interests and activity
within the field of social psychology have ranged from studies on verbal and non-
verbal communication to those on prejudice and its reduction, from the themes of
psychological development of youth groups to those of migratory phenomena,
implicit attitudes and acculturation processes, and from identity and intergroup rela-
tionships to study of the commitment of fathers in the care of children and dilemmas
of work-family balance. He has particularly attended to issues of great social impor-
tance, and in particular with regard to application effects. Dino Giovannini made
significant and original research contributions by uniting great methodological and
scientific rigor with attention to real issues of the life of individuals, groups and
society. He has advanced these topics at both a theoretical and methodological level,
adopting a psychology that is deeply rooted in real contexts, relationships and cul-
tural processes. http://personale.unimore.it/rubrica/dettaglio/dgiovannini

Adam Kendon (b.1934) was educated at St. Johns College Cambridge and gained
his Doctorate from Oxford University in 1963 for a thesis about the temporal orga-
nization of conversation as a consequence of working with Eliot Chapple of
Rockland State Hospital, NY. He then was attached to social skills project in the
Institute of Experimental Psychology at Oxford University. In 1962 he went to
Pittsburgh, PA, to work with William Condon, and after a year of teaching at Cornell
University he joined Albert Sheflen’s project on human communication. In 1976 he
went to Canberra, Australia, as a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of
Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies. Between then and 1988, among
other things, he worked on a large study of sign languages used by indigenous
Australians which he published as Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia (CUP
1988). In 1988 he returned to live in Philadelphia, PA, until 2014. During this period
he made multiple visits to Italy, teaching at the University of Naples (L’Orientale)
and the University of Calabria. He also published an English-annotated translation
of Andrea de Jorio’s la mimica degli antichi investigata nel gestire napolitano (pub-
lished as Gesture in Naples and Gesture in Antiquity, Indiana: 2000). He also col-
lected much video material of Neapolitans in every day interaction with one another.
Much of this material has been reported in his book Gesture: Visible Action as
Utterance (CUP: 2004).

Antonella Marchetti is a full professor of Developmental Psychology and

Educational Psychology at the Faculty of Education of the Università Cattolica del
Sacro Cuore in Milan. At the same University she is director of the Department of
Psychology, head of the Research Unit on Theory of Mind and coordinator of the
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Doctorate School in “Sciences of the Person and Education”. She has been a mem-
ber of the Order of Psychologists of Lombardy since its foundation and is qualified
to practise psychotherapy. Her main research topic is theory of mind in typical and
atypical development in a life-span perspective. In this context, she has dealt with
theory of mind in relation to other constructs/skills/relationships in different condi-
tions (neurodegenerative diseases, ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, sensory defi-
cits): trust and attachment; decision-­making; irony understanding; art and aesthetic
judgement; child-teacher relationship; human-robot interaction; financial educa-
tion; argumentation. She is the author of more than 200 academic publications and
collaborates with various national and international partners. E-mail: antonella.mar-
[email protected]

Giuseppina Marsico is an associate professor of Development and Educational

Psychology at the University of Salerno (Italy) and a visiting professor at
Ph.D. Programme in Psychology, Federal University of Bahia, (Brazil). She is
President Elect of the American Psychological Association-Division 52 International
Psychology and President Elect of the European Society of Psychology Learning
and Teaching (ESPLAT). She is a 20 years experienced researcher, with a proven
international research network. She is editor-in-chief of the Book Series Cultural
Psychology of Education (Springer), Latin American Voices – Integrative
Psychology and Humanities (Springer), co-editor of SpringerBriefs Psychology and
Cultural Developmental Sciences (together with Jaan Valsiner) and Annals of
Cultural Psychology: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind and Society (InfoAge
Publishing, N.C.,USA, together with Carlos Cornejo and Jaan Valsiner). She is also
co-editor of Human Arenas. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Psychology, Culture
and Meaning (Springer) and of Trends in Psychology (Springer), Associate Editor
of Cultural & Psychology journal (Sage) and Social Psychology of Education
(Springer), and member of the editorial board of several international academic
journals, (i.e. IPBS – Integrative Psychological & Behavioural Science, Springer).
E-mail: [email protected]

Monica Mollo, Ph.D., is a researcher of Development and Educational Psychology

at the University of Salerno (Italy). Her main research interests are devoted to the
study of Argumentation in educational context and construction of logic/mathemati-
cal thinking in children.

Maria Nichterlein is an Australian-based health professional. Maria is trained as

a counselling psychologist and psychologist and practices in Caulfield North,
Victoria, Sydney. She is author of Deleuze and Psychology: Philosophical
Provocations to Psychological Practices.

Nadia Pecoraro, Ph.D., is a psychologist and psychotherapist. She worked at the

Psychological Counselling Center of the University of Salerno (Italy).