After studying medicine in Florence (Italy), Dr Filippo Passetti went to Cambridge to study towards a PhD in Experimental Psychology. He then trained in clinical psychiatry in Cambridge and London, including lectureships at the Royal Free & UCL and at St. George’s Medical Schools.

He worked as consultant psychiatrist at Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust and at the Cambridge community alcohol services before starting in private practice. His main academic interests have been in the neuropsychological changes associated with addictive disorders and the neuropsychological/ functional MRI predictors of clinical outcome in addiction treatment.

Filippo joined Cognacity in 2013 and became a partner and director in 2016. For Cognacity, with psychologist colleagues Filippo developed residential gambling treatment service based in Manchester (2018) and a ketamine-assisted psychotherapy clinic (2020).

In his spare time, Filippo enjoys travelling, kitesurfing and playing the bass guitar.

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