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THE CURE
In these days the usual diatribe about the Basaglia law has returned to light, taking inspiration from the incident of the psychiatrist Barbara Capovani killed by her former patient, incident of which Gioia Piazzi also speaks in her latest article. I do not intend to enter this discussion between t…

Two minutes of silence
I look at my identity card and it reads “organ donor”. The same sentence I imagine is on many other documents especially from my medical colleagues. I think about what happened last week: a woman, a psychiatrist, was brutally attacked by a man, a former patient of hers and sadly she died. We were t…

A BEAUTIFUL GIFT
There is an invisible thread that connects what we write on this blog because last week I read Dr. Gioia Piazzi’s article with great interest and I realize that without knowing it we would both have mentioned the same topic even if for different reasons.
A few weeks ago I went to the town hall t…

UNIVERSITY ACCESS: A VIOLENT SISTEM
<<Exams are close…and you’re too far from my room>> sang Antonello Venditti in 1984 in Night before examsone of the most beautiful songs ever dedicated to the narration of that wonderful and “dramatic” period that all the boys live close to the final exam. Every now and then I happen to…

CHEEK TO CHEEK
I am in the middle of the school year and working at the Listening Desk, affectionately called CIC.
Every year, everything changes in this job.
At first I thought it was for the transition from activity in presence to lockdown, for online interviews while they were all at home and then for th…

CONNECTING THE DOTS
Following the latest articles on the blog, in particular the “debate” stimulated by the questions of the boys of Grassi high school on the relationship between man and woman, I came back to mind a current and historical theme, that of rebellion..
In recent weeks on TV were broadcast images of pr…

WALLS
As the child grows up, he experiences his own body. He counts his fingers, color them, measure spaces, his speed and his strength. Walk around the house, stumble. And while he understands that he lives in a one-room apartment, over time, he builds himself. He doesn’t use iron and concrete, but his …

CE STA ‘O MAR FOR
In perfect harmony with the national trend, our class has literally gone crazy for the TV series for weeks O’ mar for and now we only speak Neapolitan to each other! After all, the great success of the series is under everyone’s eyes so as to arouse reflections and analyzes everywhere, so we too wo…

FEMINICIDE, INTELLIGENT QUESTIONS AND INTERESTING ANSWERS.
I was reading recently a report of the Ministry of the Interior on the topic of so-called “femicide,” where it states that “Homicides with female victims show an increase in 2022 (…) women victims of homicide make up 39% of the total (…) in the family/affective sphere it is shown how …