Psychologist Virginio Baio’s Essay on Adolescent Violence Revisited in Italian Article

Virginio Baio’s essay La violenza come domanda is the focus of a new article by Pietro Savastio and Anita Romanello published on 8 October 2026 by the Italian cultural magazine Doppiozero. The piece recounts the author’s first encounter with Baio’s text a couple of years earlier, when they were actively teaching and regularly confronted with adolescent violence. Baio, a psychologist working in schools, wrote the short essay to help untangle difficult cases—children wielding knives, smashing windows, shouting in corridors. His writing stems from clinical practice and direct experience. The central thesis, which the author used in various training sessions and discussions with colleagues, is that every form of violence is a question and requires some form of interpretation and understanding. This assumption is described as fully psychoanalytic: the human, every human, has a [text cuts off]. The article was published on 8 October 2026 at 03:00.