Freedom can be found everywhere, even in the most unexpected places: in a prison, in a cloistered convent, in a hospital room, in a concert hall, in a scientific lab, in a shelter for immigrants. The lives of the people chosen by Paolo Crepet, – one of the most authoritative psychiatrists in Italy – as companions and guides in this exploratory journey prove it, as each of them has been able to conquer their own space of freedom in which to cultivate an idea of future and hope.
«This book comes from the need to start a personal research that would take me back over the years, in order to reflect on the time I am living. Writing it was a providential provocation against any seduction of self-sufficient fulfillment.»
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.
- Vulnerabili (Vulnerable)
- Libertà (Freedom)
- Passione (Passion)
- Il coraggio (Courage)
- Baciami senza rete (Kiss Me Without the Net)