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…
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
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…
I’M FINE “BUT” I DON’T ASK FOR HELP
In June, in the article “I feel terrible but I don’t ask for help” I addressed the cultural and psychological aspects that hinder a boy, aware of being ill, in approaching a psychotherapy. Today, I would like to talk about a much thornier subject instead, which concerns many young people who, althoug…
WPP, THE HORROR ON STAGE
During the summer I saw the exhibition of the WPP Award, one of the most prestigious photo journalistic awards in the world. Undoubtedly the best known to the public and photographers considered a great showcase. Thousands of professionals participate every year and the jury works for weeks to evalua…