Visual Arts and Health - Art therapy and psychotherapy: models and practices

Art therapy originates from the encounter between art and psychotherapy and is defined as a curative process to improve the effectiveness of medical therapy. Roberta Pedrinis will demonstrate how it is possible through art to transform the relationship between patient and therapist into a cathartic tool capable of alleviating trauma and suffering and bringing about transformative change in our lives. Art therapy thus comes to be seen as a method of creating a relationship with the patient from the object created by the latter. Angelo Compare will speak as a discussant to exemplify how this discipline is applied in clinical practice from a psychological and psychotherapeutic perspective. Enzo Grossi will coordinate the discussion.

Save the date: Monday, 4 November 2024 at 6 pm in the Multipurpouse room, East Campus Lugano (Via La Santa, Lugano-Viganello)

Speaker: Roberta Pedrinis, Private practice of psychotherapy and art therapy in Tesserete, art therapist at the Ticino Cancer League (CH)

Discussant: Angelo Compare, Full Professor of Clinical and Health Psychology at University of Bergamo and Head of the Psychology Team at CDI, Italian Diagnostics Centre (IT)

Roberta Pedrinis
Roberta Pedrinis graduated in Literature and Philosophy from Umberto Eco’s DAMS in Bologna. A school teacher and trainer, she graduated as an art therapist in France. He carried out pilot research at the Novaggio Rehabilitation Clinic with cancer patients and chronic pain. She works as a psychotherapist at the Atelier del Lupo Blu in Tesserete and collaborates with various institutions in the oncological and psychiatric fields. He is president of the Ticino Arts Therapists Association: ARTE-SI. www.adhikara.com/roberta-pedrinis

Angelo Compare
Full Professor of Clinical and Health Psychology (M-PSI-08), teaches in the Master’s Degree Course in Clinical Psychology at the Department of Human and Social Sciences. He was the Director of the postgraduate Master’s Degree Course in ‘Multidimensional Psychological Assessment and Intervention Techniques in the Socio-Health Care Context’. Ph.D. in Psychology, Università Cattolica di Milano (Catholic University of Milan). Graduated with 110/110 cum laude in Psychology from the Università Cattolica di Milano and awarded the ‘Agostino Gemelli Prize - Best Graduate of the Year’. Visiting Professor at the Department of Psychology at Boston College USA, Clinical Psychology Unit at University College London in the UK, Clinical Psychology Department at Leiden University Nederland, Psychology Department at British Columbia University, Vancouver Canada.

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