A difficult year
A little over a year ago, on 4th March 2020, the first DPCM (Decree of the President of the Council of Ministers) was issued and it put us in front of something we would never have imagined. At first it seemed to be a matter of one, maybe two weeks but then it became more and more clear that it would…
More than a thousand words?
It is April and it is now a year since this pandemic began.In the previous article “Todos necessitamos arte”, I tried to share some thoughts on the importance of art in our lives focusing mainly on photographic images because they are the form of expression I know best. What interested me most of all…
“… When a child is born, a mother and a father are also born …”Interview with Dr. Maddalena Saccoccio
Doing some research I read about the neuropsychomotricist Maddalena Saccoccio … “specialized in the age group 0-3 years, I mainly deal with problems related to the motor, communication and relational sphere, … practices and therapies that have in common the aim of facilitating the relationship, t…
The guys of 5G
The interview with Sara Lazzaro on the theme of school and relationship of adolescents with the social model proposed by adults especially in the last year of the pandemic continues.
Everyday life and sociality have changed dramatically in the recent months. But those who suffered the greatest con…
The eternal return of the same
The decision to close again most regions of our country in a new lockdown comes at a strange time.
I am a doctor and I’ve been wondering since a few months, seeing the number of infections in continuous growth, what they were waiting for to tighten the security measures and yet the news of a closu…
Spinning out: why so many lies?
I have recently seen a TV series, Spinning out. It’s the story of a skater, Kat, who has an accident that interrupts her career and she has to find the strength to react to the trauma and return to compete, also overcoming the conflict with her mother, a former skater who left her career because of K…
Joker
Today I would like to take my cue from the 2019 movie by Todd Phillips, masterfully starring Joaquin Phoenix and give credit to this director for having captured and well represented many things that are not at all obvious. First, it makes it clear that mental illness does not have an organic origin…
Todos necessitamos arte
Less than one year ago our Country was entering lockdown for the first time and we were all about to face something unique and dramatic at the same time, which repercussions we are still living with a great deal of uncertainty. It is still hard to see the finish line, but it has been and it is of cru…
Language. An inner world
The 2019 Consensus Conference regarding language disorders expresses itself as follows: “… to date the wealth of knowledge produced by the international scientific literature on DPL (Primary Language Disorders) still presents, on some specific junctions of the therapeutic diagnostic path, areas of…