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Assault on the Dose Booster vs No-Covid/No-Green Pass: freedom exactly of what?

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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…
INSTAGRAM, MENTAL ILLNESS AND THE USUAL LIES

INSTAGRAM, MENTAL ILLNESS AND THE USUAL LIES

Last month consulting an online magazine for work, a title caught my attention: Instagram, teenagers and mental health (https://www.filodiritto.com/instagram-adolescenti-e-health-mental). I read the opening: “Instagram is harmful to the mental health of young people, especially girls”. I jump. But wh…
TEACHING MEANS NEVER STOP STUDYING

TEACHING MEANS NEVER STOP STUDYING

The pandemic has brought the school back on the spot, highlighting problems that have existed for a long time: chicken coop classes, spaces that are not always adequate, devices that are essential for innovative teaching. These problems have been accompanied by numerous criticisms of a teaching focus…