Our Naples-based Dottoré pays a non-religious, albeit emotional tribute to the late pontiff.
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Our Naples-based psychiatrist suggests replacing wishing-well prayers with something slightly more tangible — and edible.
A misplaced trash bag containing a secret stash sparks an argument between sisters — and our Naples-based psychiatrist.
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Marriage Counseling, Al Dente
Our Naples-based psychiatrist overhears a patient’s conversation on the phone, and comes up with a very Italian kind of culinary compromise.
For Neapolitans, electoral success isn’t just a win — it’s a step up.
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Who Cleans Up After Spilled Milk?
A couple’s therapy session puts its own mental load spin on an idiom.
Our Naples-based psychiatrist reassures one patients who is feeling guilty over wishing ill on a thief.
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Talent Show In The Therapy Room
A patient has our Naples-based psychiatrist reflect on trades and their assorted skills.
Our Naples-based psychiatrist reflects on summer calm in the city, or lack thereof, and Olympic fervor.
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Ieri, All My Troubles Seemed So Far Away
A Beatles-loving patient of our Naples-based psychiatrist has a very personal interpretation of arguably the band’s most famous hit.
After taking in an undocumented Nigerian baby some 30 years ago, a patient of our Naples-based psychiatrist is worn down by the legal process and the risk of her daughter’s “repatriation.”
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Brigida’s Dream Of All-Inclusive Hotels
On International Day against Homophobia & Transphobia, our Naples-based psychiatrist remembers Brigida, a former trans patient who shared her life story and aspirations.
As her patients turn to her to find an explanation to the unspeakable, our Naples-based psychiatrist admits that she may not have the answer.
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Vocational Acumen From An Early Age
The five-year-old son of our Naples-based psychiatrist has some very definite ideas about his future career.
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Assigned Mario At Birth, Monique At Jail
A patient runs into our Naples-based psychiatrist and has a few questions about his/her identity.
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Hypocrisy At The Easter Table
Our Neapolitan psychiatrist gets told off for not treating (and eating) animals equally.
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To Be Or Not To Be Citizen By Birth
A rude woman causes our Naples-based psychiatrist to get lost in thoughts of birthright and citizenship.
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Freud In The Time Of WhatsApp
Our Naples-based psychiatrist shares a one-liner that leaves little room for interpretation…
Our Naples psychiatrist on the difficulty of convincing her patients that no, sometimes a nice cup of chamomile tea won’t fix everything.
Our Naples-based Dottoré teaches the art of “double volunteering” to one of her bipolar patients.
Our Naples-based psychiatrist laments the state of Italy’s treatment of autistic patients.
New Year’s Eve can be challenging for her patients, but our Naples-based psychiatrist puts a sunny spin on end-of-year wishes.
A patient tells our Naples-based psychiatrist about his questionable plans for Christmas dinner.
In the wake of Giulia Cecchettin’s death, our Naples-based Dottoré remembers one of her old patients, a victim of domestic abuse.
Our Naples-based psychiatrist talks one of her patients through the possible source of his wife’s discontent.
Our Naples-based Dottoré gets mildly insulted by a well-meaning patient.
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A Child Is Not An Alibi
Our Naples-based Dottoré reflects on the small-time criminals who come to her for therapy, and the family excuse for their lives of crime.
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War, Children And Snapshots Of Terror
Our Naples-based psychiatrist thinks back at a moment that has forever remained frozen in her mind. In the expression of her son’s terror, she sees all the grieving mothers who can do nothing in the face of war.
Our Naples-based psychiatrist thinks about a little girl she met in the rain, one of two sisters burdened with the unfairness of uncaring parents and a struggle with Italian nationality.
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Airing Dirty Laundry On The Couch
A patient suggests that our Neapolitan psychiatrist stick to what she knows best.
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If We Were All Conscientious Objectors
Our Naples-based psychiatrist imagines a world where all professionals could deny care on the basis of religious objection.
Our psychologist discusses schooling struggles and deep inequalities with her Neapolitan patients.
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When A Psychiatrist Is Provoked
Our Neapolitan psychiatrist recounts a chance meeting with an old patient, and the benefits of taking the bait.
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Homicidal Thoughts, Al Dente
For this patient, it’s the last spaghetti that broke the camel’s back.
A patient has an extra-conjugal/religious question for our Naples-based psychiatrist.
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Another Love Story Ruined By The Titanic
Our Dottoré discovers the origin of a patient’s schizophrenia, deep in the icy waters of the North Atlantic Ocean.
A case of mistaken identity for our Naples-based psychiatrist, in the wake of Silvio Berlusconi’s passing.
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Beautiful Game, Sweet Dreams
Sometimes, a soccer win is all that a troubled mind needs.
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Take It As A Neapolitan Compliment
One woman’s Neapolitan insult is another woman’s compliment.
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They Grow Up So Fast
Our Neapolitan psychiatrist on Italy’s eternal “mammoni” …