Of financial hardship, staged accidents — and calcio rivalry.
Categories
All Insurance Scam Roads Lead To Turin
Tag: napoli
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?”
Categories
On The Couch And On The Lam
Our Dottoré looks back on an entertaining session with a witty runaway convict.
Trasite!
Categories
No Kindness Under The Christmas Tree
T’is the season for depression …
“It’s just that all the hardships he has faced have made him more appreciative of the simple things — he’s happier than us.”
Categories
A Very Neapolitan Kind Of Halloween
Instead of going trick-or-treating, our Naples-based psychiatrist asks herself a dialectal question.
“Dottoré, if today is to be my last lunch …”
“Antonietta, I’m completely fine. Don’t you even think of bringing me a nightgown.”
Categories
Delusions Of Grandfather
“And where is your grandson?” — “Who knows. He must be old by now.”
Categories
Sowing The Seeds Of Paranoia
“They must be dumping garbage — good, it makes for good fertilizer!”
Categories
Of Rats And Men
Our Naples-based psychiatrist remembers a 2019 conversation with a patient on the geopolitics of pest control.
Charity may begin at home, but for our Naples-based psychiatrist, it also begins behind the wheel.
“Dottoré, do you have 1.50 euro by any chance?”
Our Naples psychiatrist’s view on unrealistic social media standards, feeling inadequate, and the price of happiness.
“Who do you think I am,” our Naples psychiatrist asks her patient, “a priest?”
A psychiatrist unpacks her relationship with driving, and her dad.
“There’s still a pulse,” they told me, surprisingly.
Categories
A Very Neapolitan Hatred For Summer
Volcanic outburst about heatwaves and impossibility to cool off.
Categories
Naples Wasn’t Built In A Day
“Do you realize that this changes everything for me?”
Categories
The Walls Of A Loving Home
Ciro was waiting for me at the hospital entrance. He had been told the psychiatrist was coming. “Dottoré, please let me come up with you, I need to see him and tell him I love him.” Two days earlier, he had found his father lying in a pool of blood. He did not understand why […]
Categories
A Sound Mind In A Sanitized Body?
Trying to put the “health” in “mental health” …
Categories
Mightier Than The Sword
“What am I supposed to do with this, Dottoré?”
Categories
Far From The Tree
“Mamma, do you know that when I grow up I want to be a surgeon?” “And wouldn’t you like my job instead?” “Mamma, fixing broken heads is impossible. That doesn’t interest me at all!” Elias is 5 years old. He has already understood everything. Learn more about Worldcrunch’s exclusive Dottoré! series here.
Categories
Photographic Memory
Flipping through the pages of an old photo album with my nonna, I asked her, “Grandma, why were you all in black and white when you were young?” She replied, “The war broke out. One morning we woke up, and all the colors were gone.” Learn more about Worldcrunch’s exclusive Dottoré! series here.
Hatred cannot be cured.
Fifteen years ago, Francesco kept busy by scamming people. He was a regular visitor to the beaches of Terracina, south of Rome, where he was caught several times selling counterfeit Ray-Ban sunglasses. Then came the drugs, which fed a serious substance-induced psychosis and eventually he tested positive for HIV. It’s around that time that I […]
Categories
Don’t Anger The Patron Saints Of Calcio
From St. Paul to St. Diego…
After their companions were shot over the weekend in Rome, a visit with ultra soccer fans in Naples, Italy
Categories
Naples, The Beauty And The Horror
Luigi De Magistris, a left-leaning former prosecutor, was the latest would-be savior for the troubled Italian city. But look around, things in Naples are worse than ever.
LA REPUBBLICA (Italy) Worldcrunch NAPLES– They say if you want to enjoy Italian theater, just walk out the front door. That goes 20 times over in the endlessly colorful southern city of Naples. Just such teatro di strada is all here in this amateur video (below), as a man unsuccessfully tries a U-turn in a […]