Maurizio andolfi biography of abraham

Education and career

1961–72: Italy

, University La Sapienza, Rome
, University La Sapienza, Rome

1970–1974: United States

Maurizio Andolfi, during his residency in child psychiatry, visited  Nathan Ackerman in New York in 1970 and he was profoundly inspired by him and this encounter changed the direction of his life.

Two years later, he left Italy to further his family studies in the United States. 
He lived in New York and Israel Zwerling the greatest social psychiatrist was his mentor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. 

Andolfi worked as a social community psychiatrist doing home visits with a crisis intervention team and conducted a field research on how to prevent pre-delinquent behaviour with black and Puerto Rican teenagers in a public school in the South Bronx.

• Ackerman Institute for the family in New York with the supervision of Kitty LaPerriere and Peggy Papp
• Child Guidance Clinic in Philadelphia