Giuliana Mieli is a Doctor in Theoretical Philosophy and Clinical Psychology. After working in the first mental health community services in the 1970s, she has been a consultant in the maternity wards of Saint Gerardo Hospital (Monza) and at Saint Giuseppe Hospital (Milan) in Italy. Aside from clinical practice, she has dedicated herself to the psycho-education of medical and paramedical staff in various Local Health Centres, and to training and supervising freshly graduated clinical psychologists and psychotherapists. She currently lives and works in Florence.
We live in a society that ignores and disregards attachment needs and feelings. Starting from this consideration, the author describes the stages of human emotional development in a lucid narrative... (more)