Massimo Biondi is a Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Department of Human Neurosciences, University La Sapienza of Rome, and Head of the Psychiatry Residency Program at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He is the head of the Department of Neuroscience and Mental Health and of the acute psychiatric inpatient ward at the Policlinico Umberto I Hospital in Rome. He has authored 35 books and more than 450 scientific papers on topics ranging from psychopathology to stress and psychosomatic medicine. He serves as editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Rivista di Psichiatria, indexed in PubMed/Medline. He also serves on the editorial boards of the high-impact peer-reviewed journal Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.