Only One, Well Done is the first volume of a new editorial series created in collaboration between Erickson and Scuola Holden, a famous storytelling school located in Turin. The book includes three short stories in which the protagonists (Marta, Simone and Angela) are young people of different ages who face – each in their own way and for different reasons – a recurring problem in the younger generations: they commit acts of self-harm, inflict pain and marks on their own bodies to find relief from an inner suffering that they are unable to communicate and for which they are unable to ask for help.

Through the pen of rising young writers, close to the language and experience of the protagonists, the stories manage to involve both children and adults. At the end of each narration we find the technical commentary by Stefano Vicari, head of child neuropsychiatry and one of the most famous in the field, who explains the meaning of self-harming acts and gives advice on how to recognise the signs, to prevent them and – when needed – intervene.

Each story is enriched by the evocative illustrations of young artists from the Academy of Fine Arts based in Palermo.

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THE SERIES

Only one, well done is the first volume of Reading between the lines, a series dedicated to the mental health of children and adolescents which is aimed at those interested in delving deeper into some of the most recurrent psychological disorders in young generations (self-harm, school anxiety, dysphoria gender, eating disorders, depression).

This series is designed for those:

• who need to understand and intercept a son or daughter’s request for help;
• who work with young people and need updated tools and resources;
• who personally need to find in this book the strength to look at themselves and the possibility of no longer feeling alone.

THE STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK

The highlighted parts within the stories are followed up with technical commentary by Stefano Vicari.

Character classification

Explanation of the meaning of self-harm

Prevention work

How to intervene when faced with self-harming acts

Each story is accompanied by illustrations created by students of the Academy of Fine Arts of Palermo.

Leaf through some pages translated into English to facilitate your evaluation of the product:

THE AUTHORS

Stefano Vicari
is a Full Professor of Child Neuropsychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine of the Catholic University of the Sacro Cuore of Rome and head physician at the Complex Operational Unit of Child Neuropsychiatry of the IRCCS Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital in Rome.

Scuola Holden
is a storytelling school founded in Turin in 1994. The Academy was born in 2019, the first three-year degree course equal to the DAMS.

Gabriele Guarino, Gaetano Rosano and Rebecca Verduci, illustrators from the Academy of Fine Arts of Palermo.