Dr. Stefania Alfani
Clinical psychologist
PORTRAIT · 4:5 · 1200×1500
Clinical psychologist, with a professional path built across clinical practice, research, psycho-oncology, university teaching and public engagement with science.
Clinical experience
After graduating in Psychology with a Clinical and Community focus at the Sapienza University of Rome and qualifying to practise, she built her experience in healthcare at IDI – Istituto Dermopatico dell'Immacolata, IRCCS.
Alongside her clinical work she has taken part in research projects, looking in particular at the psychological and psychosocial aspects of illness.
Work in psycho-oncology
She completed specialist training in psycho-oncology at the Regina Elena Institute in Rome.
Over the years she has run activities for people going through cancer treatment, including stress management sessions and Autogenic Training.
As part of Pink October she led a session on Stress Management and Autogenic Training organised by the Breast Unit of Policlinico Umberto I.
She has also delivered a Therapeutic Education programme for people with post-cancer lymphoedema, in collaboration with the Foundation for Personalised Medicine and hosted at IDI.
University teaching
She has taught at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
Over the years she has taught General Psychology and, more recently, History of Medicine within the degree course in Nursing.
Scientific collaborations and public engagement
AISCUP – Rome ETS
Over the years she has contributed to the association's work, taking part in initiatives devoted to oncology and to public engagement, and publishing pieces on health and the mind-body relationship, among them Autogenic Training and the recovery of psycho-physical energy.
Some of her talks are collected in the association's video gallery.
LILT – Italian League for the Fight Against Cancer
She contributed to a prevention project for secondary school students on the subject of addiction.
Foundation for Personalised Medicine
She has contributed to work on personalising health pathways, including the Therapeutic Education project for post-cancer lymphoedema.
Selected publications
She is the author and co-author of scientific publications on the psychological and psychosocial aspects of health and illness.
Her scientific publications can be consulted on PubMed.