About Eugenio Borgna
Lived 1930 – 2024 (aged 94). Eugenio Borgna was an Italian psychiatrist, essayist and university teacher.
Eugenio Borgna (22 July 1930 – 4 December 2024) was an Italian psychiatrist and essayist.
Life and career Born in Borgomanero, the son of a lawyer and anti-fascist resistance partisan, in 1954 Borgna graduated in medicine and surgery from the University of Turin, and in 1957 specialised in nervous and mental diseases at the University of Milan, where he was already serving as a lecturer. In 2005, he was awarded the Bagutta Prize for the essay L'attesa e la speranza ('The wait and the hope'). His last work was an essay about female suicide, L'ora che non ha più sorelle ('The hour that has no more sisters'), published by Einaudi in November 2024.
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Who was Eugenio Borgna?
Italian psychiatrist (1930-2024)
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Eugenio Borgna was born on 22 July 1930 in Borgomanero.
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Eugenio Borgna died on 4 December 2024 in Borgomanero.
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Eugenio Borgna was a psychiatrist, essayist and university teacher.
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Eugenio Borgna was Italian.
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