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Adriano Primadei is an Italian musician (jazzrock musician with guitar, violins and keyboards) and music therapist with a psychoanalytic background. Born in Florence in 1962, he studied phonology and music informatics with Albert Mayr and Pietro Grossi at the Florence Conservatory from 1978 to 1981. In the 1980s, he collaborated as an arranger and artistic producer on albums by Raf, Litfiba,… Read moreNeon, and Steve Piccolo's Domestic Exile. In the 1990s, he worked steadily with Alberto Pirelli's IRA label, producing "Ottavo Padiglione" by Livorno-born singer-songwriter Bobo Rondelli as arranger, musician, and artistic producer. He began his music therapy career in the 1990s, studying at the De Wervel Academy in Zeist, Netherlands. In 2001, he began attending the Lemmensinstituut, the Catholic University of Leuven's conservatory, where he supervised with Jos De Backer. In 2014, he specialized in psychoanalytic child observation, earning a Master's degree from the Tavistock Institute, University of East London. From 2008 to 2016, he was Director and instructor at the School of Dynamic Music Therapy in Florence. In 2016, together with Lacanian psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic music therapists, he founded the Society of Psychoanalytic Music Therapy. He is the director of the three-year course in music therapy at the Italian Society of Psychoanalytic Music Therapy, where he teaches clinical music therapy. His clinical practice focuses on intellectual disabilities, autism, and psychosis. Since 2001, he has worked as a music therapist at various institutions, including the Trisomy 21 Association in Florence, the Sesto Fiorentino School of Music, and the Francesco Orioli Art School in Viterbo. He has also collaborated with the Lucca Down Syndrome Association and the Pallium Palliative Care Association in Florence. He was a member of the scientific committee of the 6th European Congress of Music Therapy in Jyvaskyla (Finland) and the 8th European Congress of Music Therapy in Cadiz (Spain 2010); he gave a keynote address at the 7th European Congress of Music Therapy, held in Eindhoven (Netherlands) in 2007. In August 2016, he was invited by the Vienna Conservatory to present his work "Tarantism from a Music Therapy Perspective." He has written and presented several articles on music therapy in the fields of palliative care, disability, and autism. He is a visiting professor at the Luca School of Art in Leuven (Catholic University). In 2014, he served as the Italian representative for the European manual of psychodynamic music therapy, The Music in Music Therapy: Psychodynamic Music Therapy in Europe, edited by J. De Backer and J. Sutton and published in London by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. He co-edited, with Angelo Villa, the volume Note nella Cura, Musica, Psicoanalisi, Musicoterapia, published in 2022 by Mimesis.
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