Faculty

Roberto Beneduce is an anthropologist and ethno-psychiatrist. He teaches Medical and Psychological Anthropology at the University of Turin. He has worked in Western Africa (Mali, Cameroon) and Central Africa (DRC) on healing rituals (among the Dogon and Bulu) and consequences of violence and mass crimes (Ituri, Kivu). Since 1996 he has practiced ethnopsychiatric psychotherapy at the Frantz Fanon Center in Turin, of which he is the founding member. He received his MD and psychiatric specialization from the University of Naples, and his anthropology degree (PhD) from the EHESS (Paris). His current research and therapeutic work focus on issues of migration and refugees, social violence, psychoanalysis, and social suffering in Europe and West Africa.