The advent of digital tools and platforms, of smartphones and social networks has accelerated the “process of our daily 'diaspora' adding an 'internal' dimension; our new reality has become that of a smart family, a domestic nucleus in which everyone is present but only virtually. [...] A new declination of family relations has come into practice based on distance-proximity and presence-absence. Families are no longer a locus of emotional exchange, but a hub on which to exchange written or recorded messages, emoticons, photos and stories on Instagram. Everyone controls everyone else. Everyone is geolocated. Everyone is devoid of emotional communication.”
In his last work, "Vulnerabili" (Mondadori, 2020), Psychiatrist Paolo Crepet analyses the psychological effects of the forced cohabitation enforced by the health emergency and the role played by individual abilities to establish emotional relations.
This will be the issue addressed tomorrow by students and professors at the first local event for Project Factor J, organised by the Sicily Region for the World Day of Mental Health (October 10, 2020).
EMPATHY, RESPECT, INCLUSION
ZEDDERS IN LOCKDOWN | GROWING UP DURING THE EMERGENCY
On-line local event | Sicily Region | Oct. 8, 2020 | 10–11
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The initiative is organised as part of Project Factor J (fattorej.org), promoted by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale with Janssen Italia, a Johnson&Johnson Group pharmaceutical company, to educate one hundred thousand young men and women on inclusion, diversity and empathy for patients. The project includes six regional events dedicated to different therapeutical areas addressed by the project. The first addresses Neurosciences in Sicily.
