She is a scientific writer who studied Psychology and Art integrating neuroscience. Film critic SNCCI and Theater critic ANCT, Member of the Women of Wine.
She collaborates with the Gestalt University of Design (Mexico) and with the International Association for Arts Therapies (CH-DE).
Professor of Psychology of the Arts at the Specialization Schools in Psychiatry recognized by MIUR, CSTG. She has also worked at the Library of the University of Siena.
President of the Center of Psychology of Art and Expressive Psychotherapy, Paola Dei is also creator and coordinator of a series of cinematographic events collateral to the Venice Film Festival.
Among the institutions and associations that collaborated in the realization of the series are MiBACT, AGIScuola, ANICA, GSA, ANAC, SNCCI, CONCom, Il Parere dell’Ingegnere, Verdissime.com, A.M.I.C.I. Association, Tulipani di seta nera, La Pellicola d’Oro (1)c, Centro Studi Cinematografici, CINIT, Moviplayer, Diari di Cineclub, Carte di Cinema, Taxidrivers, CONSCom and AGE.
Among its artistic directors are Manuel Laghi and Franco Mariotti, as well as a selected group of critics, academics, intellectuals, directors and actors.
Among the actors are Pupi Avati, Oriella Dorella, Massimo Ghini, Massimo Ranieri, Franca Valeri, Lina Wertmuller, Giancarlo Giannini, Giuliano Montaldo, Sergio Staino, Milena Vukoticc, Paolo Virzi, Stefania Sandrelli, Enrico Lucherini, Daniela Poggi and others.
Among the critics are Valerio Caprara, Gregorio Napoli, Franco Mariotti, Maurizio Porro, Sauro Borelli, Roberto Lasagna, Flavio De Bernardis, Paolo Micalizzi, Eliana Lo Castro Napoli, who contributed to establish a prize dedicated to her husband Gregorio Napoli, M. Cristina Nascosi Sandri and others.
The writers have included Giorgio Pressburger; Roberto Barzanti; Maurizio Lozzi; Macjei Stasiowski; Graham Cairns; Felix Ruiz de La Puerta, Senior Honorary Research Associate School of Architecture University College London; Joel Ruiz Olivares, Escuela de Arquitectura de Madrid; Paolo Manazza, Universidad de Diseño Gestalt; and others.
Among the artists are Marcello Lo Giudice, Paola Crema Fallani, Fabio Mazzieri, Sergio Manni, Emanuela La Marca, Antonio Sodo, Doralisa D’Urso, Maria Pina Costanzo and others.
An experimented method for the treatment of oncological diseases and Alzheimer, which is inspired by the psychology of art, in particular by the work of the great cinema theorist Rudolf Arnheim, who laid the foundations of film therapy; research on mirror neurons conducted by Professor Ruzzolatti and his team; and occasionally, the teachings of the enneagram of Claudio Naranjo.
She has also developed the Method of the Painters, illustrated in the publications of Armando and disseminated in the MedicoPsychoPedagogical Series of Giovanni Bollea.
Dei has published numerous articles in international scientific journals.
Among the artists are Marcello Lo Giudice, Paola Crema Fallani, Fabio Mazzieri, Sergio Manni, Emanuela La Marca, Antonio Sodo, Doralisa D’Urso, Maria Pina Costanzo and others.
Guests and Participants have included: Giorgio Pressburger, Vittorio Sgarbi, Isabel Roussinova, Tonino Guerra, Regina Schreker, Giampiero Brunetta, Oreste Lionello, Barbara Alberti, Gianni Ippoliti and others.