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Monica Luci

Monica Luci (UK/Italy), PhD, is a relational and Jungian psychoanalyst, a Jungian Training Analyst at AIPA in Rome, and a Lecturer in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex (UK). For more than 25 years, she has worked therapeutically with torture survivors among refugee and asylum-seeking populations and has served as a consultant to international agencies on psychosocial interventions in contexts of forced displacement. She has published extensively on individual and collective trauma, torture, displacement, human rights, gender, and psychoanalysis. Her monographs include Torture, Psychoanalysis and Human Rights (Routledge, 2017) and Torture Survivors in Analytic Therapy: Jung, Politics, Culture (Routledge, 2022). She has also co-edited several volumes, including Lockdown Therapy: Jungian Perspectives on How the Pandemic Changed Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2023) and Psychoanalytic, Psychosocial and Human Rights Perspectives on Enforced Disappearance (Routledge, 2024). She serves on the editorial boards of some journals, including the Journal of Analytical Psychology, and is currently the Honorary Secretary of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP).