Caty, Jaime, Carlos, Lluis, Pilar, Antonia, Isabel and Jordi
The complex relationship between art and madness has caused rivers of ink. Stereotypes about the sick artist, more of the same. So where is the fuzzy boundary between the disposition and genius? Is there a psychiatric profile of art?
In "Retrats" (Pau Itarte - Quim Fuster, 2010) leave it up two classics: Van Gogh and Beethoven .
artistic expressions, whether visual, musical or literary works have served as a vehicle of communication used by large numbers of patients, which this way they get dispel their fears, their anguish and despair. As therapists we must not waste this opportunity.
From time immemorial, man has used pictorial representations as a means of communication, even before the written word. It is also true that certain patients suffering from various psychiatric disorders found in painting a more effective means of expression that the verbalization of their own ailments.
"The Scream." Edvard Munch
( "madness and disease were the black angels that kept my crib ..." )
This documentary is a singular example of this. The adventure was conceived when the authors contacted Llibertat Canela, a veteran fighter against Franco was going to star in a story on the guerrillas of the maquis in Catalonia . Thus they could meet his son, the painter Lluís Gràcia , affected by ezquizofrenia , who also taught at a painting workshop for psychiatric patients. The artist himself was treated in various institutions until she discovered painting as a way to cope with the disease.
Louis and a group of patients AREP (Associació per la Rehabilitació of Mental Malalt ) develop a highly satisfactory experience, embodied in "Retrats." In the words of its creators, this documentary is not intended as a scientific approach to schizophrenia. The protagonists are the sick, not the disease.
In this line, we recalled the great "1% schizophrenia ( Ione Hernández, 2006) also reviewed on this blog.
In the film does not mention the drugs, except in one scene in which the mother Pilar, one of the featured in the documentary, he stresses the value of drug treatment and its contribution to the welfare of patients.
a special event has attracted our attention: the stoic manner in which these people take their illnesses, the enormous suffering that schizophrenia has caused them to personal and family level. Still, Isabel and Caty shown enormous enthusiasm for the possibility to normalize their daily life as a couple.
The multifaceted artist Evru mutant ( Albert Porta - Zush ) is also involved in this documentary, helping patients to make a series of collages very creative ...
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Louis and a group of patients AREP (Associació per la Rehabilitació of Mental Malalt ) develop a highly satisfactory experience, embodied in "Retrats." In the words of its creators, this documentary is not intended as a scientific approach to schizophrenia. The protagonists are the sick, not the disease.
In this line, we recalled the great "1% schizophrenia ( Ione Hernández, 2006) also reviewed on this blog.
In the film does not mention the drugs, except in one scene in which the mother Pilar, one of the featured in the documentary, he stresses the value of drug treatment and its contribution to the welfare of patients.
a special event has attracted our attention: the stoic manner in which these people take their illnesses, the enormous suffering that schizophrenia has caused them to personal and family level. Still, Isabel and Caty shown enormous enthusiasm for the possibility to normalize their daily life as a couple.
The multifaceted artist Evru mutant ( Albert Porta - Zush ) is also involved in this documentary, helping patients to make a series of collages very creative ...
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