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Renzo Realini (Gerra Gambarogno, 24 May 1942) is a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He founded three private psychiatric clinics and participated in the creation of the first therapeutic centre for the treatment of drug dependency in Canton Ticino.

Renzo Realini holds a degree in medicine from Berna University, which he obtained in 1969. In 1975 he was awarded a Doctorate at the University of Lausanne, where he worked under the supervision of Prof. Christian Müller and Pierre Bernard Schneider. He completed his training in legal psychiatry with Jacques Bernheim (University of Geneva), and in Freudian psychoanalytic psychiatry with Marcel Roch (University of Lausanne) and Olivier Flournoy in Geneva.

He has been clinical chief and medical fellow of several Swiss and Italian policlinics, as well as reader in Psychiatry at the universities of Lausanne, Bologna, and Rome. From 1976 to 1979 he was the director of Canton Ticino’s psychosocial services, and he worked as scientific advisor for a number of Swiss institutional centres such as the Bois Memet detention centre in Lausanne, the Ospedale Civico and the Moncucco Clinic in Lugano, Malcantonese Hospital in Castelrotto-Croglio, the Centre Portage in Montreal (Canada), and for “Villa Argentina”, the first therapeutic centre for drug-addicts in Ticino, established in Lugano in cooperation with the Centre du Lévant of Lausanne.

He is member of the Fondation pour le Développement de la Psychothérapie Médicale spécialement de la Psychothérapie de Groupe, of great (Groupement romand d’études sur l’alcolisme et la toxicomanie), of the Swiss Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (Società Svizzera di Psichiatria e Psicoterapia -SSPP), and of the Italian Society of Psychiatry and Psychopathology (Società Italiana di Psichiatria - SIP e di Psicopatologia SOPSI).

Ever committed to research, Realini has published several studies as books, book-chapters and peer-reviewed articles. He lives and works in Lugano, Switzerland.