2026 Giovanni Stanghellini: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	46	6447	6002	123	121	259	8120

Overview

Giovanni Stanghellini is affiliated with the University of Florence in Italy. Their work primarily spans psychology and the arts and humanities, with a significant focus on clinical psychology, philosophy, psychiatry and mental health, neurology, and social psychology. Their research interests cover a range of topics including mental health and psychiatry, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, psychotherapy techniques and applications, schizophrenia research and treatment, neurology and historical studies, eating disorders and behaviors, as well as body image and dysmorphia studies.

The scientist has contributed extensively to academic literature with notable papers such as the 2024 publication titled The lived experience of mental disorders in adolescents: a bottom-up review co-designed, co-conducted and co-written by experts by experience and academics in World Psychiatry. Other prominent works include The lived experience of depression: a bottom-up review co-written by experts by experience and academics (2023), The lived experience of psychosis: a bottom-up review co-written by experts by experience and academics (2022), also published in World Psychiatry. In addition, Stanghellini authored Digital Phenotyping: Ethical Issues, Opportunities, and Threats (2020) in Frontiers in Psychiatry and contributed to the study The role of embodiment in the treatment of patients with anorexia and bulimia nervosa: a 2-year follow-up study proposing an integration between enhanced cognitive behavioural therapy and a phenomenological model of eating disorders (2021) published in Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity.

Their frequent coauthors include Milena Mancini, Cecilia Maria Esposito, George Ikkos, Valdo Ricca, and Massimo Ballerini.

Stanghellini regularly publishes in venues such as:

Psychopathology
World Psychiatry
Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity
European Psychiatry
Philosophy, psychiatry & psychology

The consistent themes across their publications reflect a multidisciplinary approach combining clinical research with philosophical inquiry, particularly emphasizing the phenomenological aspects of psychiatric conditions and treatments.

Best Publications

Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies: The Psychopathology of Common Sense

Giovanni Stanghellini

506
Citations
Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry

W Fulford;M K Davies;R Gipps;G Graham

349
Citations
Hope in psychiatry: a review of the literature

B. Schrank;G. Stanghellini;M. Slade

340
Citations
The lived experience of psychosis: a bottom‐up review co‐written by experts by experience and academics

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266
Citations
The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenological Psychopathology

Giovanni Stanghellini;Matthew Broome;Anthony Vincent Fernandez;Paolo Fusar-Poli

241
Citations
EAWE: Examination of Anomalous World Experience.

Louis Sass;Elizabeth Pienkos;Borut Skodlar;Giovanni Stanghellini;Giovanni Stanghellini

226
Citations
Embodiment and schizophrenia.

Giovanni Stanghellini

214
Citations
Poor insight in schizophrenia: links between different forms of metacognition with awareness of symptoms, treatment need, and consequences of illness.

Paul H. Lysaker;Paul H. Lysaker;Giancarlo Dimaggio;Kelly D. Buck;Kelly D. Buck;Stephanie S. Callaway;Stephanie S. Callaway

190
Citations
Emotions and Personhood: Exploring Fragility - Making Sense of Vulnerability

Giovanni Stanghellini;René Rosfort

186
Citations
Identity and eating disorders (IDEA): a questionnaire evaluating identity and embodiment in eating disorder patients.

Giovanni Stanghellini;Giovanni Castellini;Patrizia Brogna;Carlo Faravelli

149
Citations
Psychopathology of Lived Time: Abnormal Time Experience in Persons With Schizophrenia

Giovanni Stanghellini;Massimo Ballerini;Simona Presenza;Milena Mancini

145
Citations
Vulnerability to Schizophrenia and Lack of Common Sense

Giovanni Stanghellini

145
Citations
Values in Persons With Schizophrenia

Giovanni Stanghellini;Massimo Ballerini

140
Citations
Person-Centered Psychopathology of Schizophrenia: Building on Karl Jaspers’ Understanding of Patient’s Attitude Toward His Illness

Giovanni Stanghellini;Derek Bolton;William K. M. Fulford

131
Citations
The psychotherapy of schizophrenia through the lens of phenomenology: intersubjectivity and the search for the recovery of first- and second-person awareness.

Giovanni Stanghellini;Paul H Lysaker

128
Citations
Psicopatologia del senso comune

Giovanni Stanghellini

128
Citations
One Century of Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathology

Giovanni Stanghellini;Thomas Fuchs

127
Citations
Looking with both eyes open: fact and value in psychiatric diagnosis?

Kenneth W.M. Fulford;Matthew Broome;Giovanni Stanghellini;Tim Thornton

125
Citations
Quality of hallucinatory experiences: differences between a clinical and a non‐clinical sample

Giovanni Stanghellini;Álvaro I. Langer;Aless andra Ambrosini;Adolfo J. Cangas

123
Citations
Abnormal Time Experiences in Major Depression: An Empirical Qualitative Study

Giovanni Stanghellini;Massimo Ballerini;Simona Presenza;Milena Mancini

105
Citations
Psychopathology as the basic science of psychiatry

Giovanni Stanghellini;Matthew R. Broome

102
Citations
The meanings of psychopathology.

Giovanni Stanghellini

94
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Valdo Ricca University of Florence

Paul H. Lysaker Indiana University

Andrea Raballo University of Perugia

Louis A. Sass Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Thomas Fuchs University of Göttingen

Silvana Galderisi University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"

Armida Mucci University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"

Alessio Maria Monteleone University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"

Kelly D. Buck Veterans Health Administration

Vittorio Gallese University of Parma

External Links

Personal website of Giovanni Stanghellini

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