Giovanni M. Ruggiero

Full Professor in Cultural Psychology and Psychotherapy alla Sigmund Freud University Vienna/Milano, Direttore della Ricerca presso SFU Milano , Direttore della scuola di Specializzazione ‘Psicoterapia Cognitiva e Ricerca’, Docente presso la scuola di specializzazione 'Studi Cognitivi', Medico specialista in Psichiatria, Psicoterapeuta cognitivo

PROFILO RESEARCHGATE: researchgate.net/profile/Giovanni_Ruggiero

Born in Nocera Inferiore (Salerno) on May 30, 1967. Graduated in medicine at the University of Pavia in 1992, specialized in Psychiatry at the University of Milan in 1998 and in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy in Milano in 2001. He is appointed Full Professor in Cultural Psychochology and Psychotherapy  at Sigmund Freud University in Vienna (Austria) and Milan (Italy), lectures cognitive psychotherapy at the Post-Degree Cognitive Psychotherapy School ‘Studi Cognitivi’ in Milan, and is Director of the Post-Degree Cognitive Psychotherapy School ‘Psicoterapia Cognitiva e Ricerca’ in Milan. He is a practicing private psychotherapist who graduated in medicine and surgery at the University of Pavia in 1992, specialized in psychiatry at the University of Milan in 1998 and in cognitive psychotherapy at the school of cognitive and behavioral therapy “Studi Cognitivi” of Milan in 2001.

Research interest

His research interests regard the role of case formulation in the psychotherapeutic process and the cognitive constructs of anxiety

Publications

Paper

Ruggiero, G.M., Levi, D., Ciuna, A., & Sassaroli, S. (2003). Stress situation reveals an association between perfectionism and drive for thinness. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 34, 220-226. 

Sassaroli, S., & Ruggiero, G.M. (2005). The role of stress in the association between low self-esteem, perfectionism, and worry, and eating disorders. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 37, 135-141.

Sassaroli, S., Romero, L., Ruggiero, G.M., Frost, R. (2008). Perfectionism in depression, obsessive compulsive disorder and eating disorders. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 46, 757-765.

Paulesu, E., Sambugaro, E., Torti, T., Danelli, L., Ferri, F., Scialfa, G., Sberna, M., Ruggiero, G. M., Bottini, G., Sassaroli, S. (2009) Neural correlates of worry in generalized anxiety disorder and in normal controls: a functional MRI study. Psychological Medicine, 7, 1-8.

Ruggiero, G. M., Stapinski, L., Caselli, G., Fiore, F., Gallucci, M., Sassaroli, S., Rapee, R. (2012). Beliefs over control and meta-worry interact with the effect of intolerance of uncertainty on worry. Personality and Individual Differences, 53, 224-230.

Ruggiero, G.M., Ammendola, E., Caselli, G., Sassaroli, S., (2014). REBT in Italy: Dissemination and integration with constructivism and Metacognition. Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, 32, 183-197.

Sassaroli, S., Caselli, G., Ruggiero, G.M. (2016). Un modello cognitivo clinico di accertamento e concettualizzazione del caso: Life themes and plans Implications of biased Beliefs: Elicitation and Treatment (LIBET). Psicoterapia Cognitiva e Comportamentale, 22, 183-197.

Ruggiero, G. M., Sarracino, D., McMahon, J., Caselli, G., Sassaroli, S. (2016). Practicing REBT in Italy. Cultural aspects. Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, 35, 125–135. First Online: 20 July.

Ruggiero, G.M. et al. (2017). Irrational and Metacognitive Beliefs mediate the relationship between content beliefs and GAD symptoms: a study on normal population. Journal of Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy, 35(3), 240-253.

Ruggiero, G. M., Spada, M. M., Caselli, G., & Sassaroli, S. (2018). A Historical and Theoretical Review of Cognitive Behavioral Therapies: From Structural Self-Knowledge to Functional ProcessesJournal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, 1-26

Ruggiero, G. M., Caselli, G., & Sassaroli, S. (2018). Laicizzare la relazione terapeutica in psicoterapia cognitivo-comportamentale: la formulazione condivisa del caso [Secularizing the therapeutic relationship in cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy: the shared formulation of the case]. Psicoterapia Cognitiva e Comportamentale, 24, 203-222.

Favaretto, E., Offredi, A., Bedani, F., Schroffenegger, M., Sassaroli, S., Ruggiero, G. M., Fagiolini, & Caselli, G., (2020). Metacognitions and repetitive thinking in bipolar disorder and healthy controls: A comparative study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 276, 152-158.

Books

Sassaroli, S., Ruggiero, G. M. (2004). Psicoterapia Cognitiva dell’Ansia. Milano, Italia: Cortina.

Sassaroli, S., Ruggiero, G. M. (2010). Disturbi Alimentari. Milano, Italia: Cortina.

Ruggiero, G. M., Sassaroli (2013). Il Colloquio in Psicoterapia Cognitiva. Milano, Italia: Cortina.

Caselli, G., Ruggiero, G. M., Sassaroli, S. (2017). Rimuginio. Milano, Italia: Cortina.

Ruggiero, G. M., Caselli, G., Sassaroli (2020). Case Formulation as Therapeutic Process in CBT. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. Tr. Italiana (2021). La formulazione del caso in terapia cognitivo comportamentale. Gestire il processo terapeutico e l’alleanza di lavoro. Trento: Erickson.