Crete and paper are the raw materials for the "restructuring of courage." Thus, psychiatrists and psychologists like to call the new therapy Fatebenefratelli dedicated to children and adolescents with emotional disorders or victims of bullying. A couple of local color, the experience teachers of the Academy of Brera and the support of doctors do the rest. Thus was born just the Laboratory of Therapeutic Research and Art, "a collaboration between the Department of Maternal and Child Health to the Mental Hospital Fatebenefratelli, free association non-profit organization, the Department of Health and the President of the Lombardy Region , the Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera and the multinational PricewaterhouseCoopers. In the two local
created inside the hospital, about a dozen children and teenagers between nine and twelve years become artists, followed by a psychologist and professor of Brera. They meet a couple of afternoons a week to create their sculptures, gems of a collective work that takes shape as they pass the days. "The boys are making their part individually - says Frank Bifano, president of liberation, the association with a fund-raising has allowed us to purchase furniture and materials -. The goal, however, is to create a collective work in which they can still distinguish their contribution. " To feel part of a whole, is cultivating the individual communication that the relationship with the group. Currently the lab, the first experience of its kind in Europe, is reserved for patients in the Fatebenefratelli, especially the children of the 'multidisciplinary outpatient clinic for the victims of bullying and beyond. " Soon, he hopes Luke Bernardo, Director of Mother and Child, "we would like it to be accessible, free of charge, to all those who need it." Why is art that does not obviate the medicine, is a winning fight to youth problems: "The poor choice of materials to shape the sculpture is not random - says Bernard -. Being flexible and changeable, their work reflects the possibility of change and transformation of the emotional state of these guys. " Even very young patients who have experienced violence by their peers, who have attempted suicide or who have problems related to alcohol or drugs. Boys fragile, brick by brick, they need to "restructure" its own personality. A fundraiser to help the initiative is expected in June and 16, in fact, free will inaugurate the exhibition of the artist Roberto Panzeri at the headquarters of PricewaterhouseCoopers Via Monterosa.
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