Messina, “individualists grow”: meeting with the psychotherapist Domenico Barrilà at the Maurolico high school

John

By John

Meeting with Domenico Barrilà, Adlerian analyst and writer, Friday 30 May 2025 at 9.30 in the Aula Magna of the “Maurolico” classical high school.
The event aimed at students, educators and specialists, and organized by the Policy Observatory for young “Lucia Natoli” as part of the “Days of Listening” project, represents a significant opportunity to explore the issues of psychology and personal growth.

The meeting with Domenico Barrilà deepens the concepts exhibited in his book “Individualists grows”, highlighting how the social and family context influences the formation of personal identity, it also offers the possibility of a direct comparison with the author, creating a space of reflection shared on great topical issues and is aimed at students and parents. The school manager Giovanna De Francesco will bring the greetings and the psychotherapist Angelo Costantino, already guarantor for childhood and adolescence, will intervene with the author.
The Mondadori Bookstore bookshop collaborates with the event (ex Ciofalo, via Consulate del Mare 35), where Domenico Barrilà will be in the afternoon, at 6.30 pm, for a meeting organized by the collective of “Messinascrive”. Eliana Camaioni introduces the works with interventions by Alessandro Carrozza, Federico Ferrara and Alda Sgroi.

The theme

Individualism ill people with your life without you being aware of it, making you agent of infections towards your fellow men, starting with the close ones, your children, to whom you will complicate your life without touching the doubt of having really done it. You will think of being immune from individualism, you. You know you well, you know for sure. If it were not that individualism is a real magician of disguises, as well as being the most powerful and widespread among viruses because it is without flashy symptoms.
In the pages of the book “individualists we grow” (ed. Feltrinelli) by Domenico Barrilà you will begin to look in the face this neglected enemy, to see the forms through which it infiltrates your relationships and educational acts. It could be an opportunity to learn to get to know you better and fix some disorder shelf within you.

The author
Domenico Barrilà Adlerian analyst and writer represents an authoritative voice in the panorama of Italian psychology. He is the author of about thirty volumes, almost all reprinted, many translated abroad, the last of which, “individualists grow” ed. Feltrinelli, deepens the harmful effects of individualistic education on the fate of individuals and communities.