A journey into the most intimate folds of human experience, between desire, suffering, relationships and the possibility of rebirth. The book “D’amore and other things, Eros, Life and Clinic”, written by Anna Maria Ferraro and Girolamo Lo Verso, published by Alpes in the Psyche and surrounding series, will be presented on Thursday 3 July, at 6 pm at Palazzo Bonocore,
The text deals with complex issues related to intimacy, sexuality and relational dynamics, highlighting how past experiences, social expectations and internalized cultural models influence the ability to enter into relationship with oneself and with the other. The goal is to deconstruct the concept of “normality” in the emotional and sexual fields, bringing attention to the suffering that derive from internalized judgments, stereotypes and experiences of exclusion.
Between clinic and narration, the book offers a possible alternative to relational solitude, telling how the change can also be activated starting from the wounds. The clinical stories reported in the volume testify paths of care, awareness and transformation, illustrating with depth and delicacy the therapeutic power of the meeting and listening.
Guests and voices of dialogue
In addition to the authors, personalities of the cultural, artistic and academic world will speak to the presentation:
Marco Betta, superintendent of the Massimo Theater;
Barbara Vallesi Cardillo, psychotherapist and councilor of the Order of Psychologists of the Sicilian Region;
Flora Inzerillo, psychotherapist, psychodramatist, head of the clinical psychology clinic of the Cdcd of the Palermo of Palermo, as well as the author of the appendix of the book;
Don Vito Impellizzeri, principal of the theological faculty of Sicily;
Laura Barreca, professor of Art History at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania.
To moderate the meeting will be Clotilde Calascibetta, a journalist attentive to the cultural and social issues of the area.
The authors
Anna Maria Ferraro, psychotherapist, taught at the Universities of Palermo and Enna. She is the author of essays on the theme of identity, suffering and interpersonal bond and two peeled volumes by Franco Angeli: Decentity and surroundings (2007), together with G. Lo Verso; Mafia and psychopathology (2017), written with G. Craparo and G. Lo verse.
Girolamo Lo verse, an emeritus professor of psychotherapy, has published over fifty volumes on the themes of analysis, trauma and the psychological clinic, with a long experience in the field of the mafia psyche and group psychotherapy. With Alpes Edizioni he published: Medicine and Psychotherapy (2021), with D. La Barbera; The psychotherapy clinic (2022); Psychotherapy (2022).
The event is free admission while seats last and is part of the calendar of the cultural activities of Palazzo Bonocore, which has long promoted interdisciplinary reflections on the themes of contemporaneity. An opportunity to reflect on how much love is not only feeling, but also construction, breakage and recomposition, between body, memory and words.
