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Piero Ferrucci, a former student of and collaborator with transpersonal psychologist Roberto Assagioli, is a staff member of the Psychosynthesis Institute of Florence, Italy, and the International Federation of Medical Psychotherapy. He is the author of The Power of Kindness, What We May Be, Inevitable Grace, and What Our Children Teach Us, among other titles. He lives in the Tuscan countryside with his wife and children.
susan.reynolds@latimes.com --Los Angeles Times - Entertainment, October 25, 2009
Italian transpersonal psychologist Ferrucci (The Power of Kindness) keeps it simple yet profound in this persuasive argument for the importance of appreciating beauty. Beauty is not the province of artists, poets and philosophers; it is as essential to the health of the individual soul--what the Greeks conveyed in the word psyche--as breath is to the individual body. As a clinician, Ferrucci not only hears what makes people ill, he also hears what makes them better, and the remedies can be small: contemplating a painting, smelling a piece of ripe fruit, hearing favorite music. As a scientist, Ferrucci can also cite the literature that empirically supports his argument. The evolutionary perspective offers evidence that the need for beauty is hard-wired into humans, and this adds new weight to philosophers' age-old arguments. There's a reason airports are unpleasant experiences: they're "nonplaces" that harm the souls of the people who use them. This is a wonderful book to give to anyone made uneasy by the conditions of modern life, because the solution is so simple and yet bears repeating: stop to smell the roses. -- Publishers Weekly, 6/22/2009
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