(Adnkronos) - "Affrontare una diagnosi di tumore del sangue significa percorrere un cammino difficile, non solo dal punto di vista fisico, ma anche psicologico. Per questo motivo, l’Istituto nazionale tumori Irccs Fondazione Pascale integra alle terapie anche un supporto psicologico, fondamentale per il benessere globale del paziente”. Così Gabriella De Benedetta, psiconcologa del dipartimento di Ematologia e terapie innovative del Pascale di Napoli nel suo intervento alla presentazione del progetto ‘A cura dell’Arte’ l’iniziativa artistica progettata dalla Scuola di Decorazione dell’Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli per il reparto di Ematologia oncologica partenopea.
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00:00The Italian Society of Psycho-Oncology has been working for a long time for the recognition of the figure of the psycho-oncologist.
00:11It is essential that a psycho-oncologist is part of the team.
00:15The motivation is very simple.
00:17If I work with the oncological patient, when he is sent to my office, to my study, I work only with the patient, if not with the family.
00:25When I am part of the team, I have the opportunity to work on different levels at the same time.
00:34Because there is the question of the patient and what happens inside him, his family, all the patient's relationships, the team and the relationship between the patient and the team.
00:44All aspects also concern the health structure, everything that can be the social of the patient.
00:52So we work in a multi-complexity, which is completely different from working with a single patient.
01:01Starting from this, how important has this project with the Academy of Fine Arts been for the patients, for the caregivers and not only, but also for the healthcare workers?
01:14Very important. I hope it will also be done in other hospitals.
01:18Because here we go beyond the field of psychotherapy, we return to the field of neuroscience.
01:24When each of us, as human beings, when we are in front of art, and by art I mean beauty,
01:31so decoration, painting, music, but also a splendid panorama,
01:36what happens in our brain is that a series of areas are activated, practically everything.
01:41It is the prefrontal area, the amygdala, the limbic system.
01:45Basically, our brain works to receive the stimulus and to elaborate the emotions and everything that comes through this stimulus.
01:58And then we usually liquidate all this work with a simple I like it or I don't like it.
02:04So, in short, it is fundamental.
02:06And I add only this little detail.
02:10We are asking all our patients, now that the project has been carried out,
02:15so all the works have been done, what has changed emotionally for them?
02:20And a patient in particular wanted to tell it with an image.
02:26She said that she entered the hospital entrance, so the ground floor, with her head down.
02:32She didn't want to see anyone.
02:34And as soon as she entered the department, instead, she raised her head and was happy.
02:39We see them when they enter the department.
02:41And I will tell you, it also happens to us workers.
02:44Spontaneously, she leaves a smile.