Paolo Crepet
Il coraggio. Vivere, amare, educare (Courage: Living, Loving, Educating)
Mondadori Strade Blu, October 2017, 180 pages

Courage is the magic opportunity that allows one to understand the present and build the future. 

One time courage – in the sense of physical bravery – was strictly the work of humans. Then came machines, and they took over. It was no longer the armed warrior and his own hand, but machine guns, tanks, flamethrowers, fighter jets and bombers. Today, in the perhaps less risky context of a hyper-technological society, it is not always necessary to expose oneself in order to communicate; virtual reality could become an apparently safe refuge.

In his new book, Paolo Crepet offers parents, educators and young people a hypothetical inventory of various forms of courage. The courage to educate, to say no, to start over, to be indignant, to be afraid, to write, to imagine, to create. An inventory as association of ideas, a useful exercise for stimulating adults and those about to become adults so as to muster up the strength, nerve and stamina life requires of us every day.

Paolo Crepet

Paolo Crepet was born in Torino. He is a psychiatrist and a sociologist, and has been the scientific director of the “Scuola per genitori” since 2004. He is the author of Le dimensioni del vuoto. I giovani e il suicidio (1993), Cuori violenti. Viaggio nella criminalità giovanile (1995), Solitudini. Memorie d’assenza (1997), I giorni dell’ira. Storie di matricidi (with Giancarlo De Cataldo, 1998), Naufragi. Storie di confine (1999; 2002), Non siamo capaci di ascoltarli (2001), La ragione dei sentimenti (2002; 2004), Voi, noi (2003), Dannati e leggeri (2004; 2006), I figli non crescono più (2005), Sull’amore (2006; 2010), Dove abitano le emozioni (with Mario Botta e Giuseppe Zois, 2007), A una donna tradita (2008), Sfamiglia  (2009; 2011), Un’anima divisa (2010), L’autorità perduta (2011; 2013), Elogio dell’amicizia (2012), Impara a essere felice (2013), Il caso della donna che smise di mangiare (2015), Baciami senza rete (2016), Il coraggio. Vivere, amare, educare (2017), Passione (2018), Perché finisce un amore (with Alessandra Arachi, 2019), Libertà (2019), Vulnerabili (2020), Oltre la tempesta (2021). In 2017 he has won the Pio Alferano prize.

 

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