Matteo Maria Bonani was born at the foot of the Piccole Dolomiti, in Valdagno, in 1975.

Having grown up amidst woods, rocks and streams, he was bound to venture into the recesses of the psyche and towards the vast horizons of certain contemplative and indigenous traditions.
As a psychotherapist, he has encountered human suffering in psychiatric wards, in psychorehabilitation day centres, in supported housing communities, in care homes (formerly mental asylums) and in REMS (formerly forensic psychiatric hospitals); he thus came to believe that, in listening to severe symptoms, humanity has the chance not to fail – as it so often, unfortunately, does – to remember what true life is.

Thus, at the end of a long existential exploration, he turned to psychoanalysis – specifically Freudian psychoanalysis – to address the ethical question of the subject’s freedom.

“Sapere aude” urges Kant, drawing on the legacy of Horace; this is the starting point for a new beginning.