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Maurice Berger: "Why the lack of vocabulary is one of the sources of violence among young people"

2022-12-06T11:57:49.707Z


FIGAROVOX / TRIBUNE - The child psychiatrist returns to the root causes of the rise in violence among many young people. According to him, it is necessary to allow a child to acquire a language that helps him to express his feelings in order to reduce the risk that he will become violent.


Maurice Berger is a child psychiatrist, specialist in the care of violent minors, and works in a Reinforced Educational Center.

He has published

On gratuitous violence in France.

Adolescents, hyperviolent people, testimonies and analyzes

(L'Artilleur, 2019) and more recently

Dealing with violence in France, The Berger report

(L'Artilleur, 2021).

In

Le Figaro

, the linguist Alain Bentolila indicates that

“a significant part of young French people only have a few hundred words, when they would need several thousand to try to examine and peacefully accept their differences and their divergences.

When they have to address people they do not know, with whom they do not share the same convictions, the same beliefs, the same affiliation, a bloodless vocabulary and an approximate organization of sentences and speeches do not give them not the slightest chance of taking up the challenge of serene explanation

.

He adds that

“their word is not the most…

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Source: lefigaro

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