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Francesco bottacioli studio medico Roma
Francesco Bottaccioli is not a fringe figure but a systemic disruptor operating within Italian academia — his life's work builds a rigorous, multi-disciplinary scientific framework that fundamentally challenges the reductionist, organ-siloed model of Western biomedicine. He is the founding architect of Italian PNEI, having built institutions, journals, university masters, and now (as of 2026) a state-recognised psychotherapy specialisation school around a body-mind unity paradigm. The convergence of philosophy of science, neuroscience, immunology and clinical practice in one researcher is rare and deeply documented.
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- He founded the Società Italiana di Psiconeuroendocrinoimmunologia (SIPNEI), serving as its first President and now Honorary President, institutionalising PNEI as a recognised Italian scientific society.
- His editorial work includes founding and directing two peer-reviewed journals: Pnei News and Pnei Review.
- He sits on the scientific directorate of PNEI Masters at the Universities of L'Aquila and Turin, and founded SIMAISS — the International School of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences — offering ECM-accredited training for physicians, psychologists and health professionals.
- Per his LinkedIn profile (August 2026), he has 12 books currently in catalogue, with works published in multiple languages, and contributed to La Repubblica's health supplement and to the Treccani Enciclopedia Italiana.
- Most recently, on 13 March 2026, Bottaccioli launched PNEIPSICO — Italy's first psychotherapy specialisation school with a PNEI orientation, recognised by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) — of which he is Scientific Director.