The first and most important university textbook on the professions concerned with palliative care.

Article 8 paragraph 1 of Law 38 of March 15 2010, ‘Provisions to ensure access to palliative care and pain therapy’, introduced, for the first time in Italy, special lectures on all degree courses for professions working in palliative care units (doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers and so on). Over the next few years, degree and postgraduate courses will thus have to guarantee specific teaching on the subject. This book, written by the leading Italian student of the sector, represents the first and most important manual on the market for university and university-level students.

Ines Testoni is a lecturer in Psychology at the University of Padua. The author of more than 100 specialist articles in national and international journals, she has also published a number of books, among which Psicologia sociale (Social Psychology - with Adriano Zamperini, 2017), Dai gruppi alla comunità. Problemi umani e società inclusiva (From Groups to Community. Human problems and inclusive society - with Cristina O. Mosso, 2015,), Il dio cannibale. Anoressia e culture del corpo in Occidente (The Cannibal God, Anorexia and the culture of the body in the West, 2012), Dopo la notizia peggiore. Elaborazione del morire nella relazione (After the Worst News. Working through dying in relationships, 2011) and Il sacrificio del corpo. Dialogo tra Caterina da Siena e Simone Weil (The Sacrifice of the Body. A dialogue between Catherine of Siena and Simone Weil, 2002). With Bollati Boringhieri she has published L’ultima nascita. Psicologia del morire e «Death Education» (The Last Birth. The psychology of dying and ‘Death Education’, 2015).Psicologia palliativa (Palliative Psychology, 2020).