Born in Rome in 1942, was a fellow in Social and Community Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, Visiting Professor at the Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia and studied at the Ackerman Institute for the Family, the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic with Salvador Minuchin and Jay Haley and was associated with Carl Whitaker at the Madison University in Wisconsin. of Clinical & Dynamic Psychology at La Sapienza-University of Rome. He is currently the director of the Accademia di Psicoterapia della Famiglia and president of the Silvano Andolfi Foundation in Rome, as well as Editor-in-Chief of the Italian journal, Terapia Familiare. Andolfi is a founder member of EFTA and SSPPR and was awarded for his special contribution to family therapy by AAMFT in 1999 and got a Lifetime Achievement Award from AFTA In 2016. Andolfi recently relocated to Australia where he got the title of Distinguish Talent from the Australian Government and continues to teach around the world. He is a clinical member of the Australian Association of Family Therapy and an Honorary Member of the Asian Family Therapy Association. An Andolfi Family Therapy Centre has been opened in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He has published widely in English, Spanish, French and several other languages. His latest books are Teen Voices: Tales of Family Therapy with Anna Mascellani (2013) , Multigenerational Family Therapy ( 2017) and Intergenerational Couple Therapy con Anna Mascellani (2021). He appears in a collection of Video Lectures and Masters Sessions in the Multimedia Library of the Accademia di Psicoterapia della Famiglia.
