EMILIO MORDINI

Emilio Mordini  (ORCID: 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 Einheitspsychose. The term "Einheitspsychose" refers to a recently revived perspective that posits that various psychopathologies are expressions of a single fundamental disorder. Since 2021, he has been a member of the Deontological and Ethical Commission of the Medical Association of Pordenone. He is currently serving as a court-appointed technical consultant (CTU) at The Court of Pordenone.

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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 postgraduate specialization 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 (1992, 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 2018, he participated in Alain Touraine's research seminar "Fondements théoriques d'une sociologie des acteurs et de la culture" at CADIS, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris.

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From 1996 to 2004, 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 secretary of the Ethics Commission of the Medical Association of Rome, in addition to assuming the positions of treasurer and secretary general of the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME). Emilio Mordini was a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Bioethics (IAB) and scientific coordinator and lecturer of the Advanced Course on Psychiatric Ethics of the Italian Psychiatric Association (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 2013 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), Professor of Ethics and Cultural Studies at the Distance Learning University Switzerland (Fernuni Schweiz, 2016-2020). 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 of European Research and Innovation for Security). Since 1995, he has served as ethics reviewer and project evaluator in 67 panels of the European Commission's research framework programmes.

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Emilio Mordini is a member of various scientific societies, including the Italian Psychiatric Association (SIP), the Italian Society of Forensic Psychiatry (SIPF), the Italian Academy of Rapid Medical Hypnosis (IPNOMED), and the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry (AAPP), of which he is an International Board Member. He serves as associate editor of the SpringerBriefs in 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 151 peer-reviewed articles, monographs, book chapters and conference papers, in addition to numerous popular articles; the complete list is on the Publications page. He has also edited fourteen collective volumes. He has delivered eighteen keynote and opening addresses at world congresses and high-level conferences, among them the X World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics (Brussels, 2002), the International Biometric Conference of the Privacy Office of the US Department of Homeland Security (Washington D.C., 2006), the NATO International Conference "The Intangibles of Security" (Brussels, 2009), the World eHealth Congress (Brussels, 2009), the EU-China Science and Technology Week at the Shanghai World Expo (2010) and the High-Level Conference on Societal Impacts in the European Security Research Programme convened by the European Commission (Brussels, 2011).