A misplaced trash bag containing a secret stash sparks an argument between sisters — and our Naples-based psychiatrist.
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For Neapolitans, electoral success isn’t just a win — it’s a step up.
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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.
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Freud In The Time Of WhatsApp
Our Naples-based psychiatrist shares a one-liner that leaves little room for interpretation…
A psychiatrist unpacks her relationship with driving, and her dad.
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Requiem For A Stray Cat
At the mental health center where I work, we have always taken care of the area’s stray cats. Birba had been around for a few years. A few minutes ago, a boy walked in — one of those boys you see in the street, like so many in our city’s Sanità neighborhood. He looked upset. […]
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What A Psychiatrist Leaves To Faith
Stefano keeps Jesus in his wallet. Before getting his monthly shot, he pulls him out and kisses him. Maria keeps him near her bed. Before turning off the lights, she asks him to make sure that her sleeping pills will work. Antonietta wears him around her neck. She says that when she has bad thoughts, […]
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A Doctor’s Privilege
A rainy day. On the television, people are talking and talking and talking. I get ready to go to work. I’ll have to knock on some doors, and people will let me in with a smile. What a privilege to be a doctor. Worlds that are revealed to you and, occasionally, universes that open wide. […]
Brazil’s imprisoned former president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, writes an impassioned plea published by Le Monde, alongside a call by European leaders to Brazilian authorities to let Lula run for president in October.
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Goodbye, Hungarian Plague
The twisted Trinity Column in Sopron, northwestern Hungary, is what they call a “plague pillar.” It was erected to give thanks, in the late 17th century, for the end of one of the various recurrences of the Black Death that struck central Europe over the years.