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… the creative writer cannot evade the psychiatrist nor the psychiatrist the creative writer, and the poetic treatment of a psychiatric theme can turn out to be correct without any sacrifice of its beauty.
Some books put forth questions in the very first pages, sometimes in the very first words. This book by Giuseppe Civitarese, in its Italian version, presents the reader with new queries through an evocative image on the cover: Girl with Tear III, a comics character, transformed into a work of art by Roy Lichtenstein in 1977. The β of an emotion, of a sensorial experience which could not be represented, becomes the focal point of the representation; the first stone - as Antonino Ferro would say - in the building of a dream. An α element given as a threat in a fabric, weaving and warping while seeking O. Seeking not only knowledge (K) but also a series of