Ines Testoni | |
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| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupation(s) | Psychologist, psychotherapist, author and academic |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Master's degree in Clinical Psychology (University of Padua, Italy) Master's degree in Theoretical Philosophy (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) Specialization in Cultural Anthropology |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Padua |
| Website | https://inestestoni.it/ |
Ines Testoni is an Italian psychologist, psychotherapist, author, and academic. She is a professor of Social Psychology at University of Padova.[1] She is also research fellow at the Department of Creative Arts Therapies at University of Haifa[2] and directs Specialization programs in Death and End of Life Studies as well as Creative Arts Therapies for Resilience at University of Padova.[3]
Testoni's research focuses on three main fields of research with her primary research area being the social psychology of death and dying, particularly on mourning elaboration through counseling and creative arts therapies, as well as the construction of representations of death in various contexts of suffering. Her other two research areas include gender based violence[4] and philosophy and epistemology. She is most known for her researches in the field of death education.[5][6][7][8] She has authored 20 books and 250 articles. She received the Movimento Hospice Marche Prize at the Fino alla Fine festival.[9]
Testoni is an Editor for the Frontiers in Psychology,[10] Scientific Reports (of Nature), as well as Director of the Endlife Notebook Series at Padua University Press.[11]\