This book is loaded with stories and stories (as they used to say 'in the old days'). When I graduated in medicine, and chose psychiatry as a specialty, there weren't many prospects for a job that could be considered health. The almost certain fate of a newly graduated psychiatrist was to work in public, decrepit and filthy asylums or in private, decrepit and filthy asylums, where, to make matters worse, we were exploited by the “madness industry”, as the late and dear friend and Professor Carlos Gentile de Mello.The option, which many adopted, was to turn a blind eye to this situation and set up a psychoanalysis office, an option that had a very promising and socially valued future. This is because, at that time, even in private practice, the practice of psychiatry was considered a minor practice. The goal of most was to be a psychoanalyst, to do analysis, and, in this line, the top was to become a trained psychoanalyst. As another friend, Antonio Lancetti, said, there were times when being anti-asylum was not fashionable.