Healing through art and philosophy

01.10.2026

“The most important years of my life were those spent pursuing my inner images.” This insight from Carl Gustav Jung is the starting point for a journey into what art and philosophy can do for us: open up questions, give shape to what we cannot yet put into words, and transform the way we look at ourselves and the world.

Curarsi con l’arte e la filosofia (AnimaMundi Edizioni) offers a path through images, works of art, philosophical thought, and autobiographical practices, teaching us to pause, observe, and listen to what is happening within us.

Chiara Mirabelli guides the reader in an exploration of their own inner life, showing how aesthetic experience and reflection can become tools of knowledge and care. Not care understood as a response to illness, but as attention to one’s own existence, its fragilities, its desires, and its still unexplored possibilities.

This book is for those who feel the need to look at their life from another perspective, and for those who seek in art and thought not only beauty or answers, but opportunities to question themselves and to change. It is an invitation to recover wonder, creativity, and amazement, and to recognize in our inner images a form of knowledge. A journey within ourselves, so that we may return to looking outward with different eyes.