Sergio Benvenuto

Sergio Benvenuto (born 1948 in Naples, Italy) is an Italian psychoanalyst, philosopher, and author. He is a researcher for the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Rome and Professor Emeritus in Psychoanalysis at the International Institute of Depth Psychology in Kyiv. He founded and edited the European Journal of Psychoanalysis. Benvenuto studied at the University of Paris 7 from 1967 to 1973, where he earned a Maîtrise in Psychology. During this time, he attended seminars by Roland Barthes and Jacques Lacan. He received his second degree in Sociology from the University of Urbino in Italy in 1976. He then trained in psychoanalysis with Elvio Fachinelli and Diego Napolitani in Milan, where he lived and worked between 1974 and 1979. From 1989 to 1991, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Philosophy Department of the New School for Social Research. Since moving from Milan to Rome, he has divided his professional activities between social psychology research with CNR, his private practice as an analyst, and his writing. He also works as a journalist for newspapers and magazines. In 1984, he co-founded the cultural magazine Lettre Internationale, which has editions in German, Italian, Spanish, and other languages. He also contributes to American Imago, the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and various international magazines. In 1995, he established the semiannual Journal of European Psychoanalysis in New York, which later became EJPsy - European Journal of Psychoanalysis, and he served as its editor until 2020. Since 2011, he has been teaching Psychoanalysis at Kyiv's International Institute of Depth Psychology and at the Esculapio, a post-university school for psychotherapists in Naples, Italy.