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Tourists found Largo Maradona sealed off this week after municipal police fined stalls, seized goods, and flagged illegal licenses, prompting ultras leader “Bostik” to cover the famous mural of the soccer legend in protest. A neighborhood continues to defend its secular shrine.
The murder of an 14-year-old girl in Italy by her ex-boyfriend has sparked reflection on how patterns of control and possession, long associated with adult relationships, are now increasingly present among adolescents.
Our Naples-based Dottoré pays a non-religious, albeit emotional tribute to the late pontiff.
A misplaced trash bag containing a secret stash sparks an argument between sisters — and our Naples-based psychiatrist.
Mobsters ride together, they style together, and sometimes they serve time together. In Naples, it’s the Camorra for life, and even behind bars, there is a dress code and codes for inking.
For Neapolitans, electoral success isn’t just a win — it’s a step up.
The tragic death of two people inside the Neapolitan housing complex has thrown the spotlight back on a place that had transformed quickly from model city to a Camorra stronghold. Le Vele are now once again a model for other suburbs.
The lesser known Phlegraean Fields, near Naples, are now making headlines in Italy because of intense volcanic activity. Together with Vesuvius, they evoke fears in the heart of Neapolitans, but they are also a part of who they are.
Our Naples-based psychiatrist talks one of her patients through the possible source of his wife’s discontent.
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.
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.
A patient suggests that our Neapolitan psychiatrist stick to what she knows best.
Our Naples-based psychiatrist reflects on her morning walk to work, as she passes by people who simply want to see a friendly smile.
Our Naples-based psychiatrist tries to relieve a patient of his anxiety over a very specific delusion of persecution.
Our psychologist discusses schooling struggles and deep inequalities with her Neapolitan patients.
Our Naples-based psychiatrist offers a short-and-sweet exchange with a patient, on what it means to feel “different”.
Our Neapolitan psychiatrist recounts a chance meeting with an old patient, and the benefits of taking the bait.
Our Naples-based Dottoré catches a serendipitous chill amid the summer’s heat.
Our Dottoré discovers the origin of a patient’s schizophrenia, deep in the icy waters of the North Atlantic Ocean.
Our Neapolitan Dottoré considers the danger she and her colleagues face when criminals are placed under their supervision.
A case of mistaken identity for our Naples-based psychiatrist, in the wake of Silvio Berlusconi’s passing.
“Oh, to sleep as soundly as a man,” marvels our Naples-based psychiatrist.
Our Naples-based Dottoré puts out an argument with patients during a night shift at a psychiatric ward.
Sometimes, a soccer win is all that a troubled mind needs.
One woman’s Neapolitan insult is another woman’s compliment.
Our Neapolitan psychiatrist on Italy’s eternal “mammoni” …
Of financial hardship, staged accidents — and calcio rivalry.
Not all holidays are celebrated equal. Why’s that? wonders our Neapolitan psychiatrist.
“Everything has a cost, and even rights have to be paid for — and I’m tired of that.”
“I did it all because basically, I’m an idiot.”
… unless she’s a famous influencer?
“There is no Napoli on common sense?”
Our Neapolitan psychiatrist ponders the meaning of professional recognition, and lasagna.
Our Neapolitan psychiatrist is faced with the inadequacy of the Italian health system, and a mother’s helplessness.
Our Neapolitan psychiatrist reacts to the public blame directed at an exhausted Italian mother, after she fell asleep while breastfeeding her newborn son at a Rome hospital .
Two patients walk with our Naples-based psychiatrist on that fine line between freedom and insanity.
“And then they say that there’s no crisis?”
Our Dottoré looks back on an entertaining session with a witty runaway convict.
Trasite!
T’is the season for depression …