by Andrew and Suzanne Edwards

It would no doubt be interesting if one could put an entire region or country on the couch, in psychiatric terms, in order to examine its neuroses and foibles, to highlight where it might be going right or wrong. In the perpetually dysfunctional world in which we all seem to live, the results would be enlightening, dare we say, wince inducing!

Sigmund Freud by Max HalberstadtIn 1910, Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, visited Sicily; perhaps without the intention of analysing his hosts, he nonetheless made some curious and thought provoking observations. 

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Source: http://www.timesofsicily.com/