★Rights sold: World English.
★The book presents the impact of social and cultural contexts on individuals through a multidisciplinary approach, using everyday examples from life and literary and philosophical references. It helps readers view the world around them from a new perspective and reread familiar books with fresh insights. It enables readers to digest, absorb, and utilize new information, and to construct themselves through encounters with others.
★The book leads us to think about how reality is constructed, and how reality is perceived and transmitted. It reveals the mechanisms of cultural constraints, stereotypes, and biases, and shows how power imbalances between different cultures arise, and how the illusions of belonging, memory, and world meaning, as well as collective distortions, are produced.
★The author, Michela Gecele, is a psychiatrist and gestalt therapist, with a focus on cross-cultural issues (risks, opportunities, trauma and post-traumatic stress, language, communication, social and cultural backgrounds, and the connections between disease and care forms).

The book begins with the evocative journey as a metaphor for life. From here we embark on a real journey through the context of the other, which seeks to explore personal and collective territories, including the context in which the image of the other is produced, and the different forms that others take.

The author uses Gestalt therapy and its language in dealing with the book's themes, as a map for interpreting in reading relationships and forms of social and political coexistence. The theory not only places fundamental importance on the encounter between the environment, the "place" of growth and the individual, but also proposes an "organic" process of self-construction.

Michela Gecele
Psychiatrist (trained by her Mentor Eugenio Borgna to phenomenological psychiatry) and Gestalt therapist. Trainer and supervisor, international, she has published books, articles and chapters on themes of psychotherapy and psychopathology, exploring clinical suffering and its creative adjustment experiences from a phenomenological and Gestalt therapy viewpoint (including manic experiences, psychotic experiences and those defined as “personality disorders”).
Another clinical research topic and study is that of intercultural issues (risks, opportunities, trauma and post trauma, language, communication, connections between social and cultural context and forms of illness and care).
She has worked for years in public mental health services (also as supervisor) and for three years she has coordinated, in Turin, a psychological and psychiatric service for immigrants and she is supervisor of public mental health services and of programs for immigrants. She is a member of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, and of the Human Rights & Social Responsibility Committe (HR&SR) of European Association for Gestalt Therapy (EAGT). She’s co-Director of the IPsiG (International Institute for Gestalt Therapy and Psychopathology).
She has also published fiction books. She works and lives between Catania and Turin.

PREFACE
Jessica Ghioni
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1.
Culture as a Plurality of Maps
CHAPTER 2.
“Cultivating Humanity”—Intercultural Training
CHAPTER 3.
Otherness, Othernesses
CHAPTER 4.
Invisible Grounds
CHAPTER 5.
Narrating, Communicating, Translating
CHAPTER 6.
Linguistic Grounds—Bringing Reality to Life
CHAPTER 7.
Novelty, Familiarity, Support—
Relational Intentionality in Creative Adjustment
HUNGER AND DOUBT. AFTERWORD
by Francesco Remotti