Angelo Villa, PhD, is a psychoanalyst and a member of both the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis and the European School of Psychoanalysis. He works as a clinician in a public hospital and he is a supervisor in different social projects. Villa is a co-professor of Rehabilitation Psychology at University Bicocca of Milan and a full (tenured) professor at Clinic Section of Milan and at the Freudian Institute for clinic, therapy and science in Rome. His principal interests concern handicap and autism, psychic malaise and clinical practice, working with underage and deviance matters. Angelo Villa is also an author of a wide and varied literary production concerning psychopathology and techniques for clinical interventions, psychoanalysis and clinical psychology, child psychology, and applied psychoanalysis.
The book Psychoanalysis and Severe Handicap: The Hand in the Cap introduces an original look at handicap, a look aiming at capturing the subjectivity, no matter how weak or uncertain it may be, of... (more)