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Cipriano

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The Deviant Society
about depressed, suicides, hikikomori, nihilists, rom, migrants, and abnormal of every sort (more stories of reluctant psychiatry)



I have lived for half of my life in places where unwanted madness
and any possible deviation from the norm concentrate.
And I saw, from this privileged point of view, how humans,
whether they are treating or deviant, are transformed.


With this book, the trilogy of reluctance which also includes The Factory of Mental Care and The Chemical Asylum comes to an end – it includes gruesome stories that tell the pain of living of our era. Starting from his daily meeting with mental suffering, Cipriano confronts the existential fatigue, hastily called depression, that our anthropophagous society first feeds and then tries to tag along with its own diagnostic and rating folly. It could be a medical or psychiatric label, but also a sociological or judicial label, and it becomes a kind of tattooed identity, an imposed destiny from which everything else comes: duties, paths, schools, care, medicines, prisons, whatever one may or may not do (and be)
in his/her life.

Piero Cipriano (1968) is a doctor, a psychiatrist, a psychotherapist, and an ethnopsychiatric. After working in various mental health departments from Friuli to Campania, in the last few years he is working in Rome in a SPDC health centre.