GASLIGHTING
Days ago I came across an article on Repubblica on gaslighting that is defined as “psychological manipulation that during a prolonged period of time causes the victim to question the validity of their thoughts, their perception of reality or memories, and leads to confusion, loss of security and self…
REFLECTIONS ON THE SCHOOL WORLD
With the arrival of the new year, more or less, we find ourselves taking stock of what we have done and what we intend to do in the days to come.
It is the evening of January 1st as I write what you are reading and just before starting to tick my fingers on my pc I thought: “The first article of 2…
I DON’T WANT TO SHOOT…I PREFER TO RUN AWAY
The story of a former soldier, his humanity and his rejection.
Ferdinand is an Albanian army officer, we are in January 1997 and his life up to that moment is an open window on the future: youth, a promising career, a girlfriend, a homeland …. but Albania is a country in turmoil, exhausted in 19…
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UNDER THE CHRISTMAS TREE
The young people asked us….
A group of young people, a listening desk, a box. These are the ingredients of a small experiment carried out in a school. As managers of the listening desk we wanted to do something different, something that sometimes seems impossible for both adults and young people…
WHY DID EVERYONE SEE HER BUT NO ONE HELPED HER?
Latina, 12 years old writes a farewell letter and attempts suicide by throwing herself from the school window”. What’s going on? Why didn’t anyone do anything?
In Latina, our city, last week a young girl of just twelve, after writing a farewell note, attempted suicide by throwing herself from the…
BEFORE THE ITALIAN
“All adults were children, but few remember..”(The little prince)
A couple of months after the election of the “new” Government, the echoes of the inauguration speech of the new Prime Minister still resonate in my head, which is why I said to myself: ok, drink up you already did, now try to write…
THE VIOLENCE OF DENIED RIGHTS
I was reading again the article published on this blog titled Freedom to undress, not to be, written by some students of a second class of the Grassi High School in Latina, a fresh and intelligent testimony that brings out the beauty of these young people who try not to be confused by the dominant cu…
OPPRESSION AND DEPRESSION
Today I would like to talk about a very frequent topic in the psychotherapy of adolescents. It is not, of course, a question here of dealing with everything relating to depression, but of seeing something that I think is extremely important.
I’m talking about that situation in which there is an id…
MY CLASS IS A FIELD OF SUNFLOWERS
“Papillon: writing on a blog”: a brief history of a school project
This year I teach in a second class. In the morning I enter in the classroom and look at my students: some are always sulking, closed in a melancholy difficult to scratch, others are constantly in motion, volcanoes erupting with li…