There have always been doctors who have also been great thinkers: Copernicus, Paracelsus, Chekhov or, more recently, Oliver Sacks, have understood that disease not only concerns the body, but also the spirit. For this reason, the study of the symptoms that trouble the patient can find in art and literature a fundamental support to get to the center of their origin. After this wake, Andrzej Szczeklik, who, with his first work, Catharsis (Cliff, 2010), had already seen in humanism the fundamental principle of medical activity, offers us again a book written with the grace of a poet and the skill of a classic storyteller. A scientific, philosophical and artistic essay, but, above all, focused on the spiritual.