Presentazione del libro: Vivi e lascia vivere - Counseling proverbiale

Certainly! Here's the English translation of the text:

Dr. Ada Martella and the Personalist Anthropologist and Existential Reprogramming Counselor Luigi Iaia will dialogue with the author.

Live and Let Live
Proverbial Counseling

It is a manual suitable for everyone, a valid tool for readers who are in search of answers concerning their existential sphere, a place to seek meanings and contents of recurring personal situations.
A creative key to directly address problems through the popular wisdom of many proverbs.
In the helping profession, it assists the counselor in expressing, in a simple and direct manner, concepts that the client better understands and with which, through introspection and guidance by their side, they can find within themselves the useful tools for their evolution and turn a state of suffering into a process of healing and well-being.
Because health is not just the absence of illness but a state of general well-being that includes the physical, mental, existential, and social sphere, a condition in which the individual feels fully satisfied with their existence and can experience joy.
Marisa Di Mitri

Holding Marisa Di Mitri's book “Live and Let Live. Proverbial Counseling” in my hands and giving in to the temptation to immediately skim through it out of curiosity, among the abundance of proverbs commented on within its pages, would have been one and the same. However, the very proverb of the title kept me paused at the threshold of the cover for a moment. That "live and let live," even if Di Mitri had chosen it tailor-made, would have been the fitting proverb to calm my not-too-distant days of intrusive intellectual restlessness.
Therefore, with first-hand observation, this combination of proverbial literature (specifically "paremiology") with counseling struck me as a brilliant short circuit between wise language and a profession focused on becoming aware of the existential present.
A promise that Chapter Three fully keeps by performing an interpretative work, in symbolic, philosophical, and existential anthropological terms, on no fewer than fifty proverbs, without ever losing sight of the goal of the counseling process: to establish «a verbal interaction technique, a type of approach that, with the mediation of language, folklore, and cultural anthropology, gently penetrates the mental perspective of the person and their problem». Nevertheless, since proverbs are scattered in our linguistic musings like Hansel and Gretel’s breadcrumbs, also as support for «a work of introspection». It is a testimony of great impact on how much human language, from any continental realm, loves succinctly wise communicative patterns. Quite delighted, in perusing the commented list of our household proverbs, and the “advised against” ones and the countless “foreign” ones, I also found the proverb “don't cry over spilled milk”, in which I recognized the effective remedy for my intrusive intellectual restlessness. This is the wish I extend to all the readers of this book, that they recognize their own consoling proverb and take advantage of a counseling technique that will undoubtedly work effectively, as in "perseverance prevails”.
Mario Papadia

Marisa Di Mitri was born in Palermo, and she is a versatile and original artist: painting, dance, theater, sculpture, crafts—there are no limits to describing her creativity. But above all, she is the artist of her own life.
For many years, she has devoted herself to the search for her own well-being and that of others.
An Existential Reprogramming Counselor, Life Coach, existential personalist anthropologist, and Sophiartist. An expert in the helping relationship, she also uses art to help her clients improve the quality of life and become increasingly free and creative individuals.