Lucia Path is a psychologist at the hospital. For many years, she has crossed paths with children, adolescents, adults, women and men, victims of violence of all kinds. His psychology briefs are intended to be universal, while touching the particular in each of us. These extracts from life that she offers us shed light on the invisible, or those too quickly covered by indifference. The author tells us how writing is necessary to express the urgency of protecting children.
“There are some of you who write to me after reading my psychologist briefs. Your words are full of poetry. Flayed by despair, you offer a luminous ballad. The one within which rays of light emerge despite the desertion of reliable figures and all geopolitics of abandonment. You describe your maps of wandering and oxymorons of the dignity of chiaroscuro. Some of my brief ones seem to break the feeling of loneliness. From these modest fragments, I try to recall the consequences of sexual attacks committed on children. Sometimes you seem to say that it would be too late for you. And yet you say how my words reanimate the possibility of the living. As deep cuts and abrasions might heal. Our epistolary encounter opens up possibilities.
You write:
- “You have the gift of making our realities appear less lonely. »
- “Something was stolen from us”
- “I was consumed”
- “With your words we have a place”
- “You offer us this possibility of no longer being alone”
“I am honored by your feedback. They give my writing all the momentum to continue.”
illustrations by Éloïse Coussy
• Lucia Path, Briefs of psy III, Ed. Amalthee, €17.90, 160p.
