The film Steve  (Mielants, 2025), available on Netflix and adapted from Max Porter's short novel Shy  (2023), offers a rare and clinically relevant portrayal of some of the most pressing challenges in contemporary mental health: burnout among care professionals, moral injury in underfunded institutional settings, atypical presentations of adolescent male depression, and the phenomena of mirroring and countertransference in caregiving relationships. Through an analysis of the

Post written in collaboration with @pedagogista_erminiasolito Introduction The rapid economic and cultural transformations of recent decades, amplified by globalization and technological acceleration, have profoundly changed the structure of work and the identity dynamics of workers. In the “liquid society” (Bauman, 2011), characterized by uncertainty and precariousness, professionals live in an unstable balance between flexibility and vulnerability. The neoliberal model of p