He is Assistant Professor in Dynamic Psychology at the Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, “Sapienza” University of Rome, member of the board of directors of the Italy Area Group of the International Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR), the Psychoanalytic Research Consortium, the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the public sector (EFPP), and of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP). He is the founder and president of the Control Mastery Theory – Italian Group (CMT-IG). Prof. Gazzillo teaches and supervises in several training programs in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and cognitive psychotherapy. He is the author of several scientific papers published in international journals and of two recent books: Internal Saboteurs (2011) and Trusting patients: An introduction to Control-Mastery Theory (2016).