Pina Ridente is a psychiatrist who has had over 40 years of experience in the Trieste MHD, with specific expertise in deinstitutionalisation, psychosocial rehabilitation, supported housing and personal budgeting, women’s mental health, co-production.

In her career, she has contributed, as an expert consultant of WHO, to several projects of deinstitutionalisation of psychiatric hospitals and start-up of community services, collaborating, within the framework of the support that WHO has provided to different governments, with: “Thessaloniki Psychiatric Hospital”; “Santo Domingo Psychiatric Hospital”; “Bolu Psychiatric Hospital” in Turkey; “Elazig Psychiatric Hospital” in Turkey; and “Bethlehem Psychiatric Hospital” in Palestine.

Currently retired from her position as Director of a CMHC of the Trieste MHD, she collaborates as a private expert consultant in international cooperation projects for the dissemination of good practices of deinstitutionalisation and organisation of community services.

As a certified OD trainer and supervisor, (degree “Dialogical Approaches in Couple and Family Therapy” at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland) she is currently involved as part of the teaching team in the annual open dialogue courses organised in Slovenia, India and Brazil.