A TRIBUTE TO GIOVANNI LIOTTI: GENTLE SOUL, FIRST RATE THINKER, SCHOLAR AND CLINICIAN.

I describe my collaboration with Giovanni over the span of almost 15 years during which time we developed a multimotivational model that built on attachment theory and explored some of its clinical implications. I mention the many ways Giovanni infl uenced my thinking, and provide a few personal stories about Giovanni that give a sense of his generous, warm and creative nature. Throughout the article I describe how I developed some of the ideas we worked on together to provide a broad evolutionary and developmental outlook on human nature. We had planned to write a book together on this ambitious project, but personal circumstances got in the way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]