Massimiliano Sommantico, Psychologist, Psychoanalyst of the Italian Society of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalyst of the International Association for Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, Associate Professor of Dynamic Psychology at the University of Naples Federico II, Founding Member of the Department of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, Member of the International Association of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, Member of Section IV (Couple and Family Psychotherapy) of the European Federation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis.

He is the author of numerous national and international publications, including:

• Sommantico, M. (2023). Psychoanalytic intervention with families. In, G. De Intinis (ed.), Laptop. Collection of Scientific Articles. Psychoanalysis and social.it, March 2021-February 2023 , Vecchiarelli, Rome, pp. 379-406
• Sommantico, M. (2022). The fraternal complex in the psychoanalysis of the couple and the family. In R. Jaitin (ed.), René Kaës’ contributions to couple and family psychoanalysis . Social Chronicle, Lyon, pp. 151-160
• Sommantico, M. (2022). Paths of access to the unconscious psychic reality of the family bond: dreams and linguistic lapses. Journal of psychoanalytic group psychotherapy. , 79, 2
• Sommantico, M. (2021). The fraternal: from the intrapsychic to the intersubjective. Romanian Journal of Psychoanalysis , 14, 1
• Sommantico, M. (2020). Jealousy in the fraternal bond. In R. Galiani and S. Napolitano (eds.), Jealousy. Profiles of a fundamental condition . Alps, Rome, pp. 207-226
• Sommantico, M. (2019). Unconscious psychic reality in extended contexts. Journal of Psychoanalysis , 65, 4
• Sommantico, M. (2018). Between two lines: the couple put to the test? The family sofa, 41, 2
• Sommantico, M. (2017). Psychoanalytic couple consultation and use of the genogram. Dialogue , 215, 1
• Sommantico, M. (2016). The unconscious communication of a couple: dreams. British Journal of Psychotherapy , 32, 4
• Sommantico, M. (2015). The “absent” body of the couple. The family sofa, 34
• Sommantico, M. (2014). When the fraternal prevails over the Oedipal: a possible interpretive model for modern couples. In AM. Nicolò, P. Benghozi, D. Lucarelli (Eds), Families in transformation. A Psychoanalytic Approach, Karnac Books, London, EFPP Monograph Series, pp. 139-154
• Sommantico, M. (2013). The therapeutic couple in cotherapy: intertransference work. The family sofa , 30
• Sommantico, M. (2012), The fraternal. Theory, clinical and cultural explorations. . Tassel, Rome
• Sommantico, M. (2012). The Mas des Alouettes. A transmission under the sign of the untranslatable. The family sofa , 28
• Sommantico, M. (2011). On the revelation of a negative pact in psychoanalytic couple psychotherapy. Journal of psychoanalytic group psychotherapy. , 56
• Sommantico, M. (2010). The swamp. Or the discomfort in the family as a revealer of the discomfort in the culture. Clinical Psychology Notebooks , 34, 1
• Sommantico, M. (2008). What Anzieu’s “limit concepts” contribute to the psychoanalytic clinic of the couple and the family. The family sofa, 21