La relazione che si instaura tra due persone è un complesso connubio di reazioni chimiche e percezioni soggettive estremamente intense.

Sometimes, after an intense workweek, we may feel our head pulsating lightly but constantly up to the point of causing prolonged distress.

Paraphrasing the DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), a “trauma” is an occasion during which the person experienced, witnessed or was confronted with...

Eighty-six percent of Italians make use of alcoholic drinks and statistics show that the first glass is drank around the age of 11 or 12.

We often feel stressed or tell ourselves that we are so, that we are anxious. In everyday language we use to attribute negative values to these two phenomena that, actually, were born...

Despite the fact that Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is often considered as a single condition, it seems to be composed by several components. Obsessions are persistent ideas,...

Sexual dysfunctions are an important topic in psychology. Despite the wide influence that these dysfunctions have in the lives of patients, there are very few data about their specific...

Fear and anxiety are very common phenomena that often present themselves in particular moments of our lives: in most cases they appear to help us, to avoid dangerous situations or to...

Sleep is a biological need that helps us in relaxing the body and its muscles, in preserving energy and in consolidating the mnemonic information we acquire during the day. Despite...

Growing up means building a certain image of ourselves starting from the foundations we received when we were...

Asthma and allergies are very common conditions in our society. Their negative impact on the patients’ quality of life is very strong because of the physical symptoms they cause:...

Childbirth is a unique experience in the life of a woman. This phase is characterized by many changes: on the one hand the changing of body image leads to changes in lifestyle and,...

Speaking of a person essentially means speaking of the story of a human being. When summoning a personal picture of a client, of a friend or even of ourselves we can’t prescind from...

Pain has always been, along our evolution, an important signal that allowed us to defend ourselves by the dangers of the environment. Let’s imagine of inadvertently moving our arm...

Self-hypnosis is a process that allow us to create the conditions of the hypnotic state in ourselves. Research clearly states that this condition can be reached in many ways:

From an anatomical standpoint, the processes governing painful perceptions involve two different circuits: a lateral circuit, responsible of sensory and discriminatory aspects, and...

It is a common experience among pediatricians who work with families to feel powerless when facing a child whose physical suffering is secondary to a more important psychological one.