“THEY DON’T WANT TO STUDY!”
A difficult school year has just ended, made up of physical distances, fragmented times, endless hours spent in front of the computer. Difficult for me as a teacher, but especially for them, girls and boys who have had to deal with a different way of living the school and their own life.
The fatef…
I FEEL AWFUL BUT I DON’T ASK FOR HELP
I would like to try to look at a very frequent situation, the one in which there are often kids who are sick but live their request of help as a defeat. In organic medicine it doesn’t happen: I feel bad, my leg hurts and I go to the orthopaedist and there is nothing to be ashamed of. (This perhaps ex…
BETWEEN A POSTER AND THE MIRROR
IIndoors night. The suite of a hotel. A young man in the foreground is making a phone call on loudspeaker. He speaks in an annoyed tone. Behind him two large red curtains of heavy fabric decorate the windows. He wears a white T-shirt with a colourful design on. He has tattoos on the back of his hands…
AMIR ISSAA: a life to tell
Summer 2020, I am invited to realize an installation of contemporary art at the “Nuovo Cinema Aquila” at Pigneto, an almost-suburban neighbourhood of Rome where many artists have found the place to produce their art. I meet at the “Nuovo Cinema Aquila” the rapper Amir Issaa, introduced to me by…
Food for thought on Stuttering
According to the DSM-5 stuttering, Inserted in communication disorders, is defined according to the age of onset: we therefore speak of Evolutionary Stuttering (Fluence Disorder with onset in childhood) and Late-onset Stuttering (Disorder of fluency with onset in adulthood).
In the ICD-10, stutter…
The world outside and the new school
From the encounter with Sara Lazzaro, thoughts were raised on the relationship between school and life that is lived outside of it.
The government has given priority to the return of students into classrooms even if the epidemiological situation is always uncertain. Why do the institutions push so…
April 25th and May 1st
Two “typically leftist” bank holidays have just passed on April 25th and May 1st and as usual between controversies, clandestine demonstrations and statements of singers who are elected in the new image of the left, the important questions passed in silence.
I state that this does not want to be a…
Nudes: is it really revenge?
Last weekend I watched a new series, Nudes, which tells different stories but all related to the theme of revenge porn.
It made me think of a few years ago, when a person dearest to me was in the midst of puberty and to feel “older” posted on socials photos and videos that to my adult eye appeared…
Is it all because of the virus?
Newspapers, magazines, tv reports, social alarms, all talk about the increasing psychological malaise of teenagers during the pandemic: insomnia, anxiety, depression, social isolation, self-harm, suicide attempts.
But are we really sure it’s all because of the damn virus?
Of course, being locke…