Paolo Crepet
Paolo Crepet was born in Turin. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 1976 and in Sociology in 1980, specialising in Psychiatry in 1985. After graduating, he worked in India, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland and the Czech Republic. He later taught in Toronto, Rio de Janeiro and Harvard.
For many years he has been committed to the problems of youth, suicide, unemployment and social deprivation, collaborating with various institutions (Regions, Municipalities, the Italian Ministry of Health) on important projects and researches, without ever neglecting his busy activity as a writer and communicator, enriched also by various fiction books.
He is the author of Le dimensioni del vuoto. I giovani e il suicidio (1993), Cuori violenti. Viaggio nella criminalità giovanile (1995), Solitudini. Memorie d’assenza (1997), I giorni dell’ira. Storie di matricidi (con Giancarlo De Cataldo; 1998), Naufragi. Storie di confine (1999; 2002), Non siamo capaci di ascoltarli (2001), La ragione dei sentimenti (2002; 2004), Voi, noi (2003), Dannati e leggeri (2004; 2006), I figli non crescono più (2005), Sull’amore (2006; 2010), Dove abitano le emozioni (con Mario Botta e Giuseppe Zois; 2007), A una donna tradita (2008), Sfamiglia (2009; 2011), Un’anima divisa (2010), L’autorità perduta (2011; 2013), Elogio dell’amicizia (2012), Impara a essere felice (2013), Il caso della donna che smise di mangiare (2015), Baciami senza rete (2016), Il coraggio. Vivere, amare, educare (2017), Passione (2018), Perché finisce un amore (with Alessandra Arachi, 2019), Libertà (2019), Vulnerabili (2020), Oltre la tempesta (2021), Lezioni di sogni (2022), Prendetevi la luna (2023), Passione, Coraggio, Libertà (2023). In 2017 he has won Premio Pio Alferano. Mordere il cielo and Cosa porti con te are both published in 2024.