SOLUZIONI A PORTATA DI MANO CONTRO L’INTRATTENIMENTO IN PSICHIATRIA/HANDY SOLUTIONS AGAINST ENTERTAINMENT IN PSYCHIATRY

Abstract

In 2016 we conducted a cross-media laboratory in a mental health day centre in Rome. The aim of this essay is not to examine the skills acquired by the participants in the use of communication tools, but to focus on their newfound abilities to look around them, to plan and manage one’s own and standard time, to find a channel to be part of the current world. This teamwork has created a web TV, a Facebook page and a short film. The short film, Reach Out, was useful for a high school lab, in which attempts have made to reflect on some representations of mental illness through media, paintings and photography, to deconstruct them and to unravel the prejudices behind these.

Keywords:
Cross-media, Short Film, Mental Health.