Francesca A. Nadalini was born on the Italian Riviera of an Italian father and a Scottish mother. During World War II, as the Allies fought their way up the boot of Italy in pursuit of the Nazis, she and her family lived in Florence under German occupation until the city was liberated by British and American troops,and administered by the Allied Military Government. After the war, she married an American Fifth Army officer and the couple made their home and raised their family in New Jersey.
She earned a Master's degree in Clinical Social Work in 1986 at Yeshiva University in NYC. From 1992 to 1995 she studied at the Masterson Institute in New York and trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and has been in private practice for the past thirty years as a psychoanalyst/therapist. Currently semi-retired at age 87, she is running a discussion group at a local CCRC and treating individual patients as a Medicare provider.
Her own experience of aging, along with her observations of the many seniors she has worked with and continues to treat, are the basis of the book she is writing on aging in America.
When I was a child, we lived with the Mediterranean sea at our shoulders and not a day went by that we didn’t see it, or take a walk on the wet sand along the edge of the water. In fact, my mother used to...
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. -Elbert Hubbard
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. -Elbert Hubbard
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. -Elbert Hubbard
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. -Elbert Hubbard
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. -Elbert Hubbard
