The Memory of the People Around Us Is Disturbing and Is Indelible (Marina)

Abstract

The purpose of our activities is to create a therapeutic relationship between staff members and patients. These activities include: kitchen work, cabinetmaking, bookbinding, and working with dried flowers. In the course of participating in these activities, at certain structured moments we use speech and expressive activities as an instrument to promote group interaction and the acquisition of social skills. Group activities include drawing, music, speech, and verbalization. Although these activities are quite diversified, they all have the same goal, namely, to promote good group relationships. The idea is to create a protected environment, almost like an island, in which we can experiment with helping the patients recover or cultivate the ability to form social relations so as to function in the outside world. Our film attempted to capture certain representative moments. There was, of course, the risk that the picture provided would be rather fragmen-