Politically correct: thoughts on a society that wants to eliminate the dialectic about sexuality
I read with great interest the article published on this blog last week by four students. I don’t want to focus on the central topic of the article, which in my opinion deserves more in-depth analysis and maybe even a discussion with them, but I have grasped its intelligence.
In that article stude…
HOW DO YOU FEEL? FACE-TO-FACE WITH EXAM STUDENTS ON PANDEMIC SITUATION AND MENTAL HEALTH
Teenagers and covid-19: asking for help is perhaps the secret.
The 2020-2021 period had to win the struggle with the mental-health taboo, because the diffusion of the Covid-19 had expanded the necessity of approaching this argument in our time with more bravery. We want to reflect on this.
In o…
Assault on the Dose Booster vs No-Covid/No-Green Pass: freedom exactly of what?
Last week I lined up for over three hours to do the third so called additional or booster of Covid-19 vaccine. There were a lot of people. No wonder, after all, the official data of the vaccines against Covid 19 of the Ministry of Health reports that a few days after the clearance of the dose booster…
A COUPLE OF WORDS ON ADOPTION
The landscape of adoptions is vast, articulate, impossible to catalogue or label.
Many different stories, do not try to combine them in a unique speech. Very often these are meetings between different cultures, obviously between different generations and talking about it as if it were something de…
HAVE A GREAT TIME TO DEATH
Notes from a dependency service
Although my experience within the Teen Addiction Service is just at its beginning, there are already many considerations that I constantly find myself sharing with colleagues, and whether they are psychologists, psychiatrics, or specialists in toxicology, one of the…
TALKING ABOUT MATURITY
These days at school there is a big ferment among students and teachers of the last-year classes for the debate that started, following the students’ petition, addressed to the minister Patrizio Bianchi, to abolish the writing tests of the final exam. Teaching in a last-year class, I am immediately c…
CURIOSITY
How human curiosity is moving away from planet Earth
We often talk among us and with other colleagues who work as doctors in different branches with passion and difficulties.
In all the talks at one point the conversation is about the many progresses made in the medical field in the last ten ye…
WORDS ARE IMPORTANT
The importance of differentiating speech intervention based on the deficits that arise as a result of brain injury and problems that may arise in the age of development and adolescence.
I wrote a lot on this blog about issues related to developmental age and adolescence; in this article I would li…
THERE’S NO MOTIVE
“There’s no motive”. Every one of us during our life has heard news and newspapers pronounce this sentence referring to crimes often very heinous.
In people’s minds, it seems that there are “understandable” murders motivated by power, money or revenge and another type of violence, inexplicable, in…