Visiting Researcher

Email: at999@cam.ac.uk

 

Alessandro obtained his PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Copenhagen in 2016. He trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and held a post-doc position at the University of Heidelberg between 2016-2021. He is currently Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Lausanne.

Research Interests

Alessandro is interested in the lifespan development of attachments and epistemic trust and their overlap with mental health. He is interested in linguistics methods for understanding the mechanisms of mental disorders, empathic communication, and psychotherapy. He is also interested in mental health provision for children and young people with social work involvement.

Selected Publications

Talia, A., Taubner, S., Miller-Bottome, M., Muurholm, S. D., Winther, A., Frandsen, F. W., … & Duschinsky, R. (2022). The in-session discourse of unresolved/disorganized psychotherapy patients: An exploratory study of an attachment classification. Frontiers in Psychology, 5953.
Talia, A., Duschinsky, R., Mazzarella, D., Hauschild, S., & Taubner, S. (2021). Epistemic trust and the emergence of conduct problems: aggression in the service of communication. Frontiers in psychiatry, 12.
Talia, A., Muzi, L., Lingiardi, V., & Taubner, S. (2020). How to be a secure base: Therapists’ attachment representations and their link to attunement in psychotherapy. Attachment & human development, 22(2), 189-206.
Talia, A., Taubner, S., & Miller-Bottome, M. (2019). Advances in research on attachment-related psychotherapy processes: seven teaching points for trainees and supervisors. Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process, and Outcome, 22(3).
Talia, A., Miller‐Bottome, M., & Daniel, S. I. (2017). Assessing attachment in psychotherapy: validation of the patient attachment coding system (PACS). Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 24(1), 149-161.

Additional Information

Twitter account: @AlessandroTalia

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9543-4295

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alessandro_Talia