Violence at Graz, the malaise of young people and their questions. Cultivate their future together
The basis of becoming adult is the competence in managing this form of primordial energy, learning to use it as a constructive and non -destructive tool
I read with dismay What happened to Grazviolence and destructiveness
who has poured, for most unknown reasons, on who should be protected by nature, by age and innocence.
The thought has been connected to the news events of our country, the feminicides, to the murders for futile reasons. The dismay immediately connected to a question: we suddenly live in a more violent world? What is happening deep in the our young people Which makes more frequent destructive behaviors, regardless of the other of the other?
We know from many studies that theadolescence and young adulthood they are a period of greater impulsiveness on a neurobiological basisbut this cannot be the origin of what we observe. We witness very serious behaviors for trivial causes: a comment, a bad vote, the interruption of an emotional bond.
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Why failure has become so important HAVE HAVE BE TRANTED IN A such violent way?
In guys who commit such acts in the game there is often the integrity of the
sense of self and its value. Failure acquires absolute valuea profound discontent of the self.
Violence It is a distorted behavioral language, an extreme deformation of aggression (from Latin Ad-Grediorapproach) that it is the basis to be able to approach the things we consider important, going decisively towards what we want. It is a behavior that should not take action, leaving room for a controlled energy, united towards a destination.
At the basis of becoming adults there is precisely the competence in manage this form of primordial energylearning to use it as a constructive and non -destructive tool.
After all, all culture, all our long
Civilization path is an attempt to guide this profound propulsive thrust, to give it a creative form. And adolescence is a moment
central because hinge between childhood and adulthood, moment in which the values of our civilization is transmitted, in which man acquires
checkis creatively oriented to passions, learn more and more to accept the limit, all conditions necessary for a relational mode
mature.
What has been interrupted in our cultural path, in our educational model To ensure that our young people, who are more than in any other era of life, are full of energy and vitality, are suddenly, and with this frequency, protagonists of such dramatic and violent facts? What allowed this young man to hatch and grow destructiveness Inside your mind and make it explode in a disconnective way?
It is necessary to propose complex reading keys of these phenomena. Avoid simplifications who seek exclusively in the psychic disease or in one unhealthy society, in the absence of adults and their educational role
or in the inability to create listening spaces of pain the first responsible for these behaviors.
It is clearly true that these are aspects at stake. Just as it is true that some specific conditions, such as theuse of substancesadherence to delinquent modelstheearly exposure and repeated to violence (also in the family), play an important role.
Yet it should be remembered that the psychic, moral and human construction of each of us is determined by the interface of an ecosystem of different sizes: they affect subjective aspects, socio/relational aspects, the life environment, education, culture and its representation through information systems, spirituality.
All areas that should talk and share an educational anthropology.
As a professional who speaks and listens to young people accompanying them as they face the difficulties and their pathologies, I think it is now the time to
recall a new pact between institutions connecting Care, education, concrete aid.
We can do more for encourage the development of potential of our young people, to help them acquire safety in themselves, greater emotional awareness and relational skills.
We can learn to enhance the wealth of adolescence and propose to our young people a real investment on their futurethat you don’t leave them alone to navigate in situations of anguish.
We have the obligation to do it together. Nobody saves himself.
* Psychiatrist, director of Health Lomellina Asst Pavia and a member of the Italian Society of Psychiatry.
