2012 Programme
Event #25
Gustavo Pietropolli Charmet
Teenagers in school: studying the past, ignoring the future
Teenagers are coming to grips with the fear that there may be no future where they can grow and express their “social self”. At such a crucial juncture in their lives they are threatened with not finding in school the educational support they need to reorganize their hopes and expectations. They often have the impression that the disciplines they study are too past-oriented. They feel that the educational system is outdated in terms of methods, of relational style and of goals. Their teachers’ educational methods are often outdated and encourage defeatism in looking at the future. In addition to that, the ongoing economic crisis obliges societies to proclaim a “state of educational emergency”. It is urgent to make the future thinkable again for teenagers, to prepare them to under stand society, ecology, the management of the territory and all that can help them enter into their mature life.
is a psychotherapist with a background in psychoanalysis and a specialization in psychiatry. He has headed psychiatry hospital divisions, has been director of the School of Specialization in Psychology of the Life Cycle, and is professor of Dynamic Psychology at Milan’s Bicocca University. He is president of the Istituto Minotauro, of the CAF-Onlus, director of the A.R.P.Ad-Minotauro School of Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy, and head of Milan’s Crisis Center. Following are some of his books published by Franco Angeli: Ragazzi sregolati (2001), Crisis center (2003), Manuale di psicologia dell’adolescenza: compiti e conflitti (with A. Maggiolini, 2004). Mondadori published his 2006 book Non è colpa delle mamme; his 2009 book Uccidersi, written with A. Piotti, was published by Raffaello Cortina; Laterza published in 2008 Fragile e spavaldo. Ritratto dell’adolescente di oggi (eight editions) and Che cosa farò da grande? (2012), both in the series ‘i libri del Festival della Mente’.
Event #3
Anna Salvo
Sorrow is like a telescope that helps us look into the distance: creatività and suffering
Event #4
Andrea Moro
I speak, therefore I am Like the starry sky: visions of language across the centuries
Event #28
Mauro Agnoletti, Ilaria Borletti Buitoni
Culture, environment, landscape. For a possible, sustainable future
