Francesco Mancini is director of the Quadrennial Postgraduate Specialisation Schools in Cognitive-Behaviour Psychotherapy Associazione di Psicologia Cognitiva APC and Scuola di Psicoterapia Cognitiva srl SPC, and full professor of clinical psychology at Guglielmo Marconi University, Rome. He is the past-president of the Italian Society of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapy (SITCC).