Patrizia F. Salvaterra is an Italian philosophical counsellor certified by APPA since 2012. She lives in the countryside near Verona and has been a member of the association founded by Lou Marinoff and Pierre Grimes since 2009. In more recent years, she has also joined PRAGMA, an Italian association of philosophical practitioners, and PHI (Philosophical Health International), based in Sweden. She is a doctor of Philosophy from the University of Milan, her hometown, where she graduated summa cum laude in 1984, and worked there for a few years as a research fellow and lecturer, focusing on Phenomenology, Aesthetics, Ethics, and Philosophy of History. She has written and published in Italian, with works on Hegel, Husserl, Lyotard, Dumont, and Postmodernism. More recent articles, published in English, explore her experiences as a philosophical practitioner—including real-world cases—and the connection between humor and philosophy.
From 2016 to 2022 Patrizia collaborated with the University of Verona as a member of the teaching staff, and also with other local universities (Venice Ca’ Foscari, Brescia), national and European institutions and research centers, and public authorities. She is also a journalist, a member of the National Order of Journalists, specialized in scientific and medical topics. She integrates her philosophical background with communication expertise in her work as a writer, counselor, trainer (more than 500 days of training classes), and consultant. Patrizia enjoys travelling, reconnecting with old and new friends, and hiking in nearby hills and mountains, where she finds renewal in the energy of nature. As a sommelier, she is thinking to write in the near future about the philosophical role of wine in Western culture, and on how some psychoactive substances contribute to creativity and human connections.

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