Ricardo, a second year high school student, is teased, persecuted and assaulted by several classmates. It is a case of mistreatment with abuse of power that provokes in the boy a defeatist thought system, of devaluation of himself and helplessness that soaks his emotional life with sadness and anger. Through dialogue with his family and friends, Ricaro will become aware that these thoughts are like piranhas that devour his self-esteem and emotional well-being. He will learn to deal with them, deactivating his destructive power, until he improves his personal abilities and changes the situation. His cousin Rosi, three years older than him, advised by his mother, will train Ricardo in various stress coping strategies: cognitive restructuring, relaxation, imaginative visualization and self-exposure to stimuli. The use of these procedures of modern rational emotional psychotherapy will al...read more