Eugenio Borgna is emeritus Doctor of Psychiatry at the Ospedale Maggiore in Novara and lecturer in the Clinic of Nervous and Mental Illnesses at the Università degli Studi in Milan. His scientific work includes clinical and phenomenological psychiatry, general and specific special psychopathology, pharmacopsychiatry and community psychiatry as well as epistemology and methodology in psychiatry. He has also studied the thematic correlations between psychopathological experiences and those that are creative, poetic and artistic. His most recent books include: La solitudine dell’anima (2011); Di armonia risuona e di follia (2012); Il tempo e la vita (2015); L’indicibile tenerezza. In cammino con Simone Weil (2016) with Feltrinelli; Parlarsi. La comunicazione perduta (2015); Responsabilità e speranza (2016); L’ascolto gentile (2017); La nostalgia ferita (2018) with Einaudi; and L’arcobaleno sul ruscello (Raffaello Cortina, 2018).