by Dr Margherita Bechi, Psychotherapist based at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan The past… My interest in the quality of life for patients affected by schizophrenia began very early in my clinical and research career. I started working and studying psychosis before my university degree at the psychiatry department of San Raffaele Hospital, Milan. From the beginning, I found the clinical, psychopathological, and functional heterogeneity of psychosis interesting and intrigu