On a blog that actively deals with psychology such as Papillon, for example, a first reading could be that attributed to him by Karl Lewin, a famous social psychologist who in the \u201930s developed the Field Theory that bears his name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following his research, Lewin highlighted how behaviors are a function of all the forces that influence individuals at a given moment, which therefore constitute themselves as the living space they find themselves inhabiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Obviously Lewin focused on the totality of the psychological factors that coexisted within the temporal coordinates examined (in short, he was referring to a psychological field!) whose expression is summarized in the formula C=f (PxA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Behavior would then be a function of a complex dynamic interaction of the forces acting on the relationship between the person (considering their history, needs, motivations, and both biological and psychological characteristics) and the environment, at least as this is perceived by the subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One scenario could be that Donald Trump, perceiving that the US does not have enough oil, felt entitled to stage a coup in a neighboring country so that he could dispose of it at will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or what Adolf Hitler must have found himself in when, perceiving how Germany was forced into its expansion to the East by the presence of countries like Poland and Russia, he decided to invade them with the intention of colonizing them by settling millions of pure fellow Arians there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And in fact, another use of the term living space is precisely the one associated with the Nazi regime, as if the neighbor who felt a little\u2019 too cramped in his 60 m2 and wanted to enlarge the living room could, but only if he felt so sacrificed, knock on our door and tell us something like \u2018good morning, from today I need this space so she’s moving tonight\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fortunately, the recent victory of the Student Party in Serbia and student movements in general seem to bring a new air to Europe, as does the success of the no longer very young Lula in Brazil and the Democrats in the USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But what if instead of referring to behavior as a more or less probabilistic equation we tried to relate everything to thought?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Among the many food for thought that emerged during the interview with Zerocalcare, for example, one that particularly struck me was the invitation to listen to younger people in a peer discussion, emphasizing the political importance of doing so within a collective dimension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, I feel like agreeing and relaunching:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What if, in addition to listening to people’s conscious thought, we also tried to dedicate ourselves to non-conscious thought?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A great debate could be opened (to be debated, same root of fighting but without damage or victims..) because returning to our formulas, instead of studying only the behavior of human beings, we could focus instead on their thinking, and perhaps do so starting from when it begins at birth, and then following it throughout the subsequent development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yes, but to use manuals, how do you \u2018neurodevelop\u2019 a human being?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the most popular approach currently, that is, the bio-psycho-social one, human beings develop through the continuous interaction between psychological and social biological realities, and while it seems to be a very inclusive and exhaustive point of view, going into it a little deeper\u2019 things are not quite like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rather than biological aspects, in fact, those that are taken into consideration are neuro-biological ones, that is, those linked to the functioning of neurotransmitters, leaving aside others that in my opinion are fundamental in the constitution of the future personality, such as temperament, not to mention psychological ones, amputated as they are of non-conscious reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As far as the social environment is concerned, this is not understood so much as relational but rather as the set of generic conditions capable of protecting or not from the development of different pathologies, as if culture were capable of determining mental illness and not, as in fact happens, creating diagnoses of mental illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What then happens when a child with a particularly reactive temperament \u2018encounters\u2019 a social environment that is not inclined to understand its characteristics but rather rushes to \u2018regulate it\u2019?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One possibility is that the same environment, instead of striving to approach its reality in an attempt to understand it, attempts to instead include it in predetermined and socially acceptable categories, somehow creating and then fueling the explosion of diagnoses related to Neurodevelopmental Disorders (such as Oppositional Provocative Disorder or ADHD to name a few) that continue to increase in our country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If the government responds to the protests of hundreds of messed-up and angry kids by targeting schools (you’ll understand, the movement was born from students..) or families (but where were the parents?) By churning out decrees and expanding prisons, we are simply leaving them even more angry and pissed off (and perhaps prejudiced) as if there were a tendency to combine a certain medicalization not only with repression, but with the containment of minority dissent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBut how come that one day he wakes up and takes over Ukraine, this other one took away my future and I can’t bring a sweatshirt?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Is it possible that you can’t create a space (a field?) more or less wide to the left in which the power of ideas is guided by an interest in humanity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Marco Randisi<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On a blog that actively deals with psychology such as Papillon, for example, a first reading could be that attributed to him by Karl Lewin, a famous social psychologist who in the \u201930s developed the Field Theory that bears his name. Following his research, Lewin highlighted how behaviors are a function of all the forces […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":8568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n