title: Alessandro Defilippi
text: # Alessandro Defilippi
  
  Alessandro Defilippi is an Italian writer and screenwriter.
  
  Born in Turin, he works as a psychoanalyst. His published works include the gothic tales collection Una lunga consuetudine (Sellerio, 1994) and two novels, Locus Animae (Passigli, 1999), a psychological thriller, and Angeli (Passigli 2002), a gothic novel with themes of mysticism, politics, ethics and philosophy.
  
  He also worked on the screenplay for Prendimi l'anima, directed by Roberto Faenza, and has written poetry.
  
  