GOODBYE, SUMMER!
In a little village at the foot of the Apennines that no longer exists, I keep small treasures of the mind. One of those places so small that you could play one giant game of hide-and-seek across the whole village, finding yourself shouting “Found youuuuu!” between breathlessness and laughter after t…
WILDFLOWERS
YESTERDAY
Perhaps it is because it is September and the air smells of new beginnings, of sun-caramelized skin embraced, of excited, stolen, long-awaited “I have so much to tell you” at the school gates, of sadness gently let go into the memory of suns set along the timeline at the bottom of the se…
A CHAT ABOUT SUMMER 2026
(video transcript https://youtu.be/bR2uocM2EZg )
Good morning, everyone. Today I’d like to take advantage of the fact that psychotherapy sessions are on hold – it’s the so-called summer break – to step out of my role as a psychologist and discuss with you a few topics that have come up over the su…
THESES, ACHAEANS AND INDIFFERENCE
Last year of high school. Theses in preparation. The science professor says that the chosen topic is a bit banal, because many people choose it:
“Travel as a metaphor for life”
A bit obvious, but there will be a reason why so many choose it at that age. A little’ because one trip, school, is ab…
CASSIOPEA
“The road ahead is neither easy nor safe. But it must be travelled, and it will be.”
Blue. There is nothing else around me. A deep, intense blue that, as I lower my gaze, swallows every trace of sunlight and grows darker. It isn’t black. There are blades of light, long, bright rays that, through s…
ALL AT SEA
Images of the thousands of boys and girls arriving in Ceuta have gone around the world, demonstrating once again how the web is capable of making its borders disappear.
Magic, illusion, utopia, that of inhabiting a planet that truly belongs to everyone?
This is certainly the case today, but per…
THE COLOR OF WHEAT
Beginning in the 1950s, during an era shaped by psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theories, the first psychiatric medications began to be introduced.
In a book I am currently reading, “Strangers to Ourselves” by Rachel Aviv, the author tells us that, in those years, whenever a psychiatrist became i…
IT ALWAYS HAPPENS IN SUMMER
It always happens in summer, making fruit salad with watermelon, melon, strawberries, peach, apricot, and cherries, only after putting them to your ears pretending to have new ruby earrings, and only after eating one, because if it’s the lucky “first cherry of the year,” it will hold a wish, never qu…
WHAT DO POLITICIANS THINK OF HUMAN BEINGS?
(Video transcript)
I imagine that many of you will turn up your noses today at the thought of yet another psychologist who starts talking about politics and reduces everything to psychology. But I’m absolutely convinced that without a clear and well-defined understanding of human nature, politicia…