Attà Negri received his Ph.D in Clinical Psychology at University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, in 2007. After a one year post-doc in Clinical Psychology he became in 2008 assistant professor in Psychodynamic Psychology at University of Bergamo, Italy, where teaches Clinical Assessment and Psychological Interview.

He is certified in Adult and Couple Psychoanalysis by the Italian Society of Relational Psychoanalysis (SIPRe); Member of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR), the Italian Association of Psychology (AIP) and the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP).

His main research interests are focused on relationship between meanings, relational contexts and psychopathologies, content and conversational analysis of the therapeutic conversation, psychotherapy process-outcome evaluation, nonspecific and specific psychotherapeutic change factors.

Since 2012 he has been involved with the Referential Process Research Group in some collaborative studies investigating the Referential Activity and the linguistic specificities in the subjects’ narratives at the projective tests, in the therapist’s notes and in the conversation of patients suffering from the main psychopathologies; he is collecting the normative data on nonclinical Italian subjects as well.