Paulus Hochgatterer, writer and child psychiatrist, discusses his poetics of childhood and the necessity of writing. For many years, Hochgatterer has divided his time between his work in a hospital in Austria and his career as a writer. From these two aspects of his life, particularly unique texts emerge. In the texts collected here for the first time about literature, he shares what drives him to write: the pleasure of the forbidden, the identification with his clients, the joy of digression, the dialogue with his cats, and the realization that we always speak of ourselves when we talk about things.