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Vol. 36 No. 3 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.4081/rp.2025.1108

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Published: 23 December 2025
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Simone Provenzano
simone.provenzano@gmail.com
Private Practice Psychologist, Croci di Calenzano, Florence, Italy.

I have not yet fully understood what allows change in my patients. Perhaps this statement is a hyperbole, a way of emphasizing the emotional weight I experience when I am entrusted with fragments of life given to me in trust by those who rely on me. Being what we are called to be is never simple. Patients invest in us: in our abilities, in our personal history, in the possibility that our gaze might influence their experience. This investment constitutes one of the essential dimensions of care and helps make it possible for something in their inner world to transform. [...]

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