Rassegna Meet Spring 2026, ospita: Vito Calabrese

📍 Taranto – Thursday, March 26, 2026, 9:15 PM
The cultural series “Meet Spring 2026”, dedicated to dialogue as a tool for social transformation, continues at Sonora - Art Music Drinks & Food (via Principe Amedeo 1/3).
The second appointment, “SEAT FOR TWO” – Professionals in comparison between experiences, skills, and visions, proposes a series of meetings centered on the value of the exchange of knowledge, lived experiences, and different perspectives.
The guest of the evening will be Vito Calabrese, author of the book “Bringing Life to Safety”: an intense and profound work that explores pain and the need to redeem one’s everyday existence. A narrative that builds a bridge between anguish and the desire for a future, entrusting words with the task of processing trauma and giving voice to the most difficult experiences. An invitation to transform suffering into awareness and hope, far from any logic of escape or revenge.
It is not a book about Paola, the author’s wife, a psychiatrist who lost her life at the hands of a patient. That book has yet to be written.
"I started writing because I didn't want to be voiceless in front of the void created by evil. Talking about trauma is difficult: there is a tendency to look away. Trauma inhabits a non-place; giving it a space, making it encounterable, is necessary to trace a boundary between the living and the dead.
In my work as a psychotherapist, I approached the pain of others, but when something absurd happens, life is viewed with fewer illusions and more gratitude. I discovered that mourning is not only emptiness and nostalgia but also what love continues to generate in the present, in relationships, and in the beauty of other stories.
My vision has changed: I cannot disregard what has happened. Someone used to say that Paola did not want to go through life like an empty dress. This book is a piece of her dress.”
Vito Calabrese is a psychologist and psychotherapist with a psychoanalytic orientation, a lecturer at the COIRAG specialization school in Bari. For over thirty years, he has worked in the psychiatric field, with experiences in the family counseling centers of ASL Bari. Throughout his career, he has dealt with psychotherapeutic and rehabilitative treatments and has been the scientific director of an emergency telephone service for suicide prevention.
The series is part of the Wellbeing 2026 project, a pathway dedicated to mental health, identity, inclusive languages, and cultural participation.
🎟️ Free entry
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