The greatest representative of Strategic Therapy: 500,000 copies sold!
Pleasure, fear, pain and anger: these are the four emotions that rule our lives. We can now learn to manage them to the best of our ability so that we can feel comfortable with ourselves and others.

Even as babies, we experience instinctive reactions to events that concern us: we feel pleasure when something is good for us, pain when, on the contrary, it is something bad, fear when we sense danger and we respond with anger to a threat. These constitute the four roots of our genetic heritage, and we have used them to weave the complex affective, sensory, sentimental and emotional fabric that defines us. It is therefore of paramount importance to fully understand them and all their facets – neural, physiological and psychological – precisely to avoid being overwhelmed and enslaved by them.
Strategic Therapy teaches us to keep an eye on them so that we can go back to being in control of our emotions.

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2500 patients cured, 30 years of experience, 30 published books translated worldwide. The greatest representative of Strategic Therapy: 400,000 copies sold!

A wonderful book that offers winning strategies against what has become to all intents and purposes the social crisis of our times, all the more exacerbated by the recent pandemic: loneliness.

There is a feeling that the over 65s and the under 30s have in common now more than ever: loneliness. The feeling of being alone is caused first and foremost by the very technology that allows us to be constantly connected with one another. That’s right, connected but with no physical contact, so no actual body (which gives tenderness), no voice (for storytelling), no gestures and no eye expression (that conveys emotions). After all, the proximity of a body, of touching, hugging, mutual support and recognition is at the root of social coexistence, cooperation and of being together.
Giorgio Nardone shows us how our present loneliness can be treated, understood and resolved.

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Giving the best of yourself at every moment and in every situation.
A book for anybody who wants to increase the efficiency of their mind and body.

Performance is a highly topical word and attitude that permeates every sector of society. This makes it interesting to analyse, understand how it works and develop this kind of attitude in practice. Dr Nardone uses tools and practical enhancement and relaxation techniques to teach us to go beyond our limitations, in order to overcome stress and uncertainty, and reach new targets. He first worked on many of these aspects by helping managers, athletes, actors, speakers, artists, students, musicians, surgeons and many others manage their performance, find a way of giving the best of themselves and overcome doubts, fears, blockages and anxieties.

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2,500 patients cured, 30 years’ experience, 30 published books translated worldwide. The greatest representative of Strategic Therapy: 350,000 copies sold.

Made famous by Molière and his Imaginary Invalid, the fear of illness doesn’t seem to be losing its grip on people, and presents an apparently paradoxical challenge to medicine and its continued progress. The terror that undermines daily life, the constant demand for medical help and treatment, and the complaints about pain, are deeply real to patients and have a negative impact on their lives as well as those close to them. This book shows how, by means of many fun and paradoxical techniques one can, within a short space of time, emerge from the vicious circle of hypochondria. A comprehensive, exhaustive volume which doesn’t just demonstrate the effectiveness of therapy in treating this condition with an account of clinical cases, but also provides useful advice for preventing it.

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2500 cured patients, 30 years of experience, 30 published books translated worldwide. The greatest representative of Strategic Therapy: 500,000 copies sold!

According to data from the World Health Organisation, 1 out of 5 people across the world have had at least one panic attack in their lives. Giorgio Nardone has successfully treated more than 15,000 patients, and therefore has an extraordinary experience that he can put to his readers’ disposal. This is useful both for doctors and therapists: the more patients you treat, the more stories, experiences, diagnoses and knowledge you accumulate. The stories told in this book – 12 cases of patients suffering from panic attacks – are exemplary cases that summarise the art and the technique, the competence and the professionalism of Giorgio Nardone. Lengthy psychotherapy isn’t necessary, so much as a paradoxical strategy to help us face our fears, enhancing them to the point in which they are annulled and transforming them into our greatest resource. A clever and extremely useful book, up to date and very relevant, which carries a serene and reassuring message: it is possible to get better, and to come out from the darkest shadows in which panic imprisons us.

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Videoconference on Zoom, drinks on WhatsApp: it’s the boom of video calls, but what’s different in digital communications? An instructions manual for correct speaking and effective activity online.

Our lives have altered over the past few months and so has communication. The change has occurred in particular in the decrease of power in non-verbal (looks, expression, gestures) and para-verbal (rhythm and volume of a voice, inflection, pauses and silences) communication. All these elements alone convey 80% of the emotion in a conversation. Their contribution is so important that, in cases where there is an inconsistency between verbal and non-verbal channels, it’s the latter we tend to trust. Giorgio Nardone teaches us little tricks to improve our approach to work and interpersonal relations, even from behind a screen.

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One isn’t born stupid, one becomes it!

How to build resounding failure or avoid doing it.

We can all make stupid mistakes and adopt behaviours, which, with the benefit of hindsight, seem anything but wise. Sometimes, what makes us stupid is actually excess reason, like, for instance, when we persist in defending our ideas even in the face of their failure, confusing determination with stubbornness and tenacity with obtuseness. And so, blinded by ephemeral successes, instead of correcting these attitudes, we repeat them ad infinitum, and this results in turning episodic expressions of stupidity into a permanent personality trait. Stupidity doesn’t exist in nature, it’s not a biological defect; it’s an entirely human product, an insidious virus to which no one is immune. Where does this attitude originate? And what are its consequences in everyday life? With his over-twenty-year experience as an expert psychologist and psychotherapist, Giorgio Nardone leads us into the discovery of the mechanisms of stupidity and suggests effective antidotes to protect us from its traps and live alongside it. Because nothing is totally wrong and everything can turn out to be useful: even stupidity.

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A very topical subject!

Giorgio Nardone tells us how to get back on our feet after a year that has radically altered our habits and certainties, by resorting to creativity in order to build new roads and reinvent a better future.

Inventing means finding a new road no one has noticed before. You can see this clearly in the case of inventions and scientific discoveries – but also in art, psychology, music and philosophy. Also, therefore, in ourselves. To overcome a crisis, an impasse or a moment of depression, we have to change our vantage point, we need a creative act, so that we can invent a new perspective. That’s our only possibility of renewing ourselves and growing, and therefore finding a remedy against old age, sadness, lethargy. We must resort to creativity: the only way to a future of change.

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Navigate life’s storms by rereading an Eastern classic, The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi, the greatest warrior of the Japanese tradition, who lived in the 16th century.

Giorgio Nardone shows us how useful the martial tradition can be in adopting a strategic approach that aims to improve our ability to sense, act and understand the complexity of reality and, within it, find the often simple solutions this reality offers us, and reach a state of peace with oneself. La pace del guerriero is not a paradox, but the end point of a journey of personal evolution, which, once completed, becomes a starting point for reaching further evolution: a never-ending game of continual self-improvement, that leads us to a full and exciting life and to a mindful, serene death.

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When anxiety and panic take your breath away.

A guidebook to the causes and treatment of an increasingly common disorder.

Breathing: the first and last thing we do – the thread of life. The air we breathe, which nourishes our blood and our organism. If this mechanism breaks down, we get ill. It is what happens when anxiety forces us to breathe unnaturally: we feel oppressed, we gasp for air, inhale more of it, but create the opposite result. With contributions from Simona Milanese, a specialist doctor, and Sabino de Bari, a physiotherapist, Giorgio Nardone offers food for thought about the mechanism that fuels the feeling of choking effect, in order to break the vicious circle between pathological fear and dysfunctional breathing.

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What happens when fear becomes a problem rather than a useful response?

Giorgio Nardone explores phobias, using real-life cases in order to help overcome anxiety, panic and irrational fears.

By analysing phobias, from social anxiety to exaggerated fears, Giorgio Nardone shows us how therapist and patient can find internal solutions together and solve the problem. He presents solutions which, although they appear magical, stem from a deep understanding of how our mind works.

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A complete and up-to-date guide to the new emerging psychopathologies that ruin the lives of present-day adolescents and their families, and to their quick therapies.

Never before have adolescents had such a challenging time, especially since Covid, when loneliness and forced closeness with their families have triggered an explosion of many pathologies: anxiety, depression, attempted suicide, etc. Giorgio Nardone and his team realise the importance of prompt intervention to prevent these pathologies from becoming permanent and deeply debilitating to the adults of tomorrow.

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Giorgio Nardone, the Founder and Director of the Strategic Therapy Centre of Arezzo, presents therapy tactics to help avoid and overcome one of the most insidious limitations of the human mind: the fear of winning.

Victory is at the forefront of everyone’s thoughts – or almost everyone’s. The fear of winning can take root in the dark and often forgotten recesses of our inner reality. In many cases, people suddenly encounter a blockage just a few steps away from the finishing line, and find themselves trapped in a paradoxical resistance towards the achievement of success. That is when you need therapy tactics to unblock this disabling situation.

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