Luciano Mecacci - Curriculum Vitae#

Education

• 1970 Laurea in Filosofia, University of Rome “La Sapienza”

Scientific and Academic positions

• 1971 - 1986 Research Fellow, Institute of Psychology, National Research Council
  
• 1986 - 1993 Associate Professor of Physiological Psychology, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
  
• 1993 - 1995 Professor of Research Techniques in Psychology, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
  
• 1991 - 1995 Scientific Consultant, United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, Rome
  
• 1995 - 2009 Professor of General Psychology, Florence, Italy

Institutional Positions

• 1992 - 1995 Head of the Department of Psychology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
  
• 1996 - 1998 Head of the Department of Psychology, University of Florence
  
• 1998 - 2006 Vice Rector of the University of Florence
  
• 2011 - 2012 President of the Academy of Fine Arts, Florence

Guest Professorships and Fellowships

• 1972 Institute of General and Pedagogical Psychology, Moscow
  
• 1973 - 1974 Laboratory of Neurophysiology, National Research Council, Pisa
  
• 1975 Institute of Psychology, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow
  
• 1978 Institute of Psychology, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow
  
• 1982 Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale, CNRS, Paris
  
• 1983 Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale, CNRS, Paris

Member of Editorial Boards

• Journal of East European and Russian Psychology
  
• European Yearbook of the History of Psychology
  
• Culture and Education
  

Books (a selection)

Brain and History. The Relationship between Neurophysiology and Psychology in Soviet Research, preface by A.R. Luria. New York: Brunner/Mazel 1979 (translated in Persian, 2021).

(with Lamberto Maffei), La visione. Dalla neurofisiologia alla psicologia, preface by Nobel Prize R. Granit. Milano: Mondadori EST 1979.

Identikit del cervello. Roma-Bari: Laterza 1982 (translated in Spanish, 1985; Dutch, 1985; German, 1986; Portuguese, 1987).

Dizionario delle scienze psicologiche. Bologna: Zanichelli, 2008.

La Ghirlanda fiorentina e la morte di Giovanni Gentile. Milano: Adelphi, 2014.

Lev Vygotskij. Evoluzione, educazione e patologia della mente. Firenze: Giunti 2018.

Storia della psicologia. Dal Novecento a oggi. Roma-Bari: Laterza 2019.

Besprizornye. Bambini randagi nella Russia sovietica, 1917-1935. Milano: Adelphi 2019 (German translation in progress, Hanser, Berlin).

Articles (a selection since 2000)

Luria: A unitary view of human brain and mind. Cortex, 2005, 41: 816-822.

Solomon S. Shereshevsky: The great Russian mnemonist. Cortex, 2013, 49: 2260-2263.

Vygotsky’s reception in the West: the Italian case between Marxism and communism. History of The Human Sciences, 2015, 28: 173-184.

A possible source of the final piece of Vygotsky’s Thinking and Speech. European Yearbook of the History of Psychology, 2016, 2: 71-77.

(with D. Caroli) Forbidden science: The dismantling of pedology and the listing of the works of pedologists in The Soviet Union in 1936-1938. European Yearbook of the History of Psychology, 2020, 6: 11-61.

Dante on mind and brain. Cortex, 2021, 138, 356-364.