Keywords

• The first Italian survey promoted on self-writing starts to be conducted ten years after the birth of Libera Universita dellAutobiografia in Anghiari and addresses the overwhelming need to monitor a phenomenon which is felt in great expansion. The comprehensive survey &ndash
• here summarised in its fundamental aspects &ndash
• highlights strengths and weaknesses linked to the phenomenon of self-writing thus providing useful hints about how to implement self reflective capacities and about how to develop memories in all the contexts under study