Franco Fornari was an Italian psychiatrist, who was influenced by Melanie Klein and Wilfred Bion.
13 Facts About Franco Fornari
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Franco Fornari was a professor at the University of Milan and the University of Trento.
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Franco Fornari graduated in Medicine and Surgery and specialized in neuropsychiatry at the University of Milan.
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Franco Fornari was interested in psychoanalysis and under the leadership of Caesare Musatti he became an analyst member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and the International Psychoanalytic Society.
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Franco Fornari's wife, Bianca Fornari, is a psychoanalyst, as is his daughter, Gigliola Fornari Spoto.
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In 1968 he obtained the chair of Dynamic Psychology, the first chair of psychoanalysis in Italy, at the Faculty of Sociology of Trento, which, as Franco Fornari affirmed, he chose because he was "stimulated by being with young people who wanted to engage in social activities".
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Franco Fornari died from a sudden heart attack at his home in Milan in Via Plinio, in the late morning of May 20,1985 after returning from teaching at the State University where he held the chair in Psychology.
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Franco Fornari's teaching and research have changed the history of psychology in Italy, breaking the traditional separation that characterized the relationship between psychology and psychoanalysis, and further bridging the divides between experimental and clinical.
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Franco Fornari began introducing in Italy the thoughts and the ideas of Melanie Klein.
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Franco Fornari resolved the relation between body and mind by positing a code that preserves and transmits information in both directions between body and mind.
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Franco Fornari developed a "coinemic" theory, in which the minimum unit of affective meaning is the "coineme", which unites affects and the language presiding to the various forms of communication.
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Franco Fornari saw this living code as an instrument and methodology that could be used to apply psychoanalysis to a broad range of cultural phenomena: literary texts, speech, music, images and behavior.
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Franco Fornari dealt specifically with the psychoanalytic aspects of war.