Piero Ferrucci

Piero Ferrucci is a psychotherapist and a philosopher. He graduated from the University of Torino in 1970. He was trained by Roberto Assagioli, the founder of psychosynthesis, and has written several books:

What We May Be: The Vision and Techniques of Psychosynthesis (1982, ISBN 978-0-87477-192-3)^[1] is a comprehensive description of this approach, with exercises and practical tips.

Inevitable Grace (1990, ISBN 978-0-87477-550-1) is the result of a nine year research in the lives of hundreds of creative and enlightened people of all times and cultures. It describes their peak experiences and highest moments, as well as how they achieved their breakthroughs.^[2]

What Our Children Teach Us (1997, ISBN 978-88-04-43223-4) is about what we can learn from babies and children as parents, relatives or educators, and how we can grow by being around them.^[3]

The Power of Kindness (2007, ISBN 978-1-58542-588-4) is a view of kindness from the perspective of eighteen different qualities, such as gratitude, warmth, generosity, etc.^[4] With a foreword of H.H. the Dalai Lama.^[5]

Beauty and the Soul (2010, ISBN 978-1-58542-833-5)^[6] is about how the experience of beauty can change our life.

Ferrucci also co-authored The Child of Your Dreams (1992, ISBN 978-0-89281-365-0) with Laura Huxley,^[7] and edited The Human Situation (1977, ISBN 978-0-06-012091-7), a book of lectures by Aldous Huxley.^[8]

Piero Ferrucci has a had psychotherapy practice for the past thirty-five years. He teaches in several European countries, and lives in Florence with his wife and two sons.

Ferrucci is the nephew of Aldous Huxley and Laura Huxley.^[9] He is married and has two sons.^{[citation needed]}

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