Skip to content

Author

Giovanni Stanghellini

2 papers indexed here

We haven’t gathered this author’s papers yet. Follow them and we’ll fetch their work.

Not the right person? Other researchers publish under this name.

Review Open access Oct 2026

Poetics of the illness experience: using the power of images in psychiatric care

Modern psychiatry’s reliance on diagnostic checklists and digital systems can obscure what makes each patient’s suffering unique. We lose the lived reality of distress – the embodied, emotional truth that patients actually experience. This article proposes a different approach: ‘psychiatric poetics’. We argue that cl...

Giovanni Stanghellini, G. Ikkos · 0 citations
Open access Sep 2026

The hour of poetry: A toolkit for residents in psychiatry

Abstract Contemporary psychiatry suffers from an epistemological impoverishment that weakens its capacity to encounter the intricacy of human suffering. Because psychopathological conditions are intrinsically ambiguous, contradictory, and affectively charged, psychiatric training cannot rely exclusively on rational-con...

Giovanni Stanghellini, G. Ikkos · 0 citations

We use cookies to run the site and, with your consent, for analytics and to show ads. See our Cookie Policy.