Gianmichele Laquale

Senior Clinical Psychologist
Italian Health Service

From Italy, Gianmichele is a psychologist, psychotherapist and group analyst, member of the Board of Il Cerchio Associazione Italiana di Gruppoanalisi (Italian Association of Group Analysis), and full member of COIRAG (Confederation of Italian Organisations for Analytic Research on Groups) and Group Analytic Society international (GASi). He currently works as a senior clinical psychologist for Azienda Sanitaria Locale (ASL) Foggia, Local Health Authority of the Italian National Health Service. 

He is an alumnus of the United World College (UWC) of the Adriatic and holds a degree in Psychology, a Master's degree in Clinical psychology, a PhD in Psychodynamic Psychology from the University of Bari and a specialisation in Group Analysis from COIRAG. He started his professional career as a psychologist at the Psychological Counselling Service of the University of Bari and as a research assistant in psychodynamic psychology at the Department of Psychology of the same university. He also worked as a psychologist in several secondary schools in Apulia, as a trainer in group dynamics for public and private organisations and as a therapist in private practice. Later, he served for seven years as a College psychologist at UWC Dilijan and collaborated as a consultant for Peace Corps Armenia and Rise, an initiative of Schmidt Futures and the Rhodes Trust. More recently he worked as a senior clinical psychologist for ASL Roma 5 before moving to his present position.

A strong advocate for the UWC mission, he has been a member of UWC selection committees in Italy, Armenia, Georgia and Uzbekistan and collaborated with the Global Selection Programme.