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…
THE FREEDOM TO UNDRESS, NOT TO BE
(The following article was written by the students of a second level of the G.B. Grassi scientific high school in Latina, within the school training project “Papillon, writing in a blog” relating to the accademic year 2022/2023 )
We apparently experience gender equality. Culturally not yet.
A f…
FURTHER REFLECTIONS ON SPECIFIC LEARNING DISORDERS
I return to a topic already debated in this blog (it was the first article written by me back in November 2020, “Specific learning disorders. What do children tell us?”), Because in recent days I have read an article sent to me by a colleague psychotherapist and then others again this month due to th…