Psychosocial Care Center

The proposed project is aimed at drug addicts and the territory of the Emilia-Romagna region in Italy, who need specialized interventions for the promotion and prevention of mental health. The project aims to integrate group therapy for learning to cope with craving and the carpentry workshop, which is called Made (Im)perfect. Made (Im)perfect is the brand created within the social carpentry workshop of the Ortica Day Center. Each object is a handmade unique piece, each with its own history, its origins, its own characteristics: just like all of those who work on this project.
With the purchase of these products it is possible to economically support the care pathways of people who have social and psychological frailties. The objects are created by the people who participate in the proposed healing activities, including group therapy about craving.
The organisers want to propose and implement in the area: how to learn strategies for managing the restless mind (when under the effect of craving) and create in everyday life.

In the carpentry objects created you will find imperfections, different dimensions and perhaps some errors: this is what makes us unique and special.

We create unmistakable and unique wooden products, mixing INVENTIVENESS and MANUAL SKILLS,
to make the living spaces personalized.

We believe that wood looks like us,
it is a weather resistant material,
but at the same time ductile and transformable
by careful hands.

We, with our differences and fragility, are committed to giving a second chance to the scraps from which the object you are holding in your hands is born.

This second chance that we give to objects is reflected in the nature of the subjects, who aspire to create a life worth living for themselves.

The challenge of working with mental health in the country was rethought by a group, called Apasso a Porta, from the Psychosocial Care Center in Paranoá, Brazil. The artistic team, composed of 22 employees and former employees of the place, in addition to some patients, reinforces the importance of this type of intervention to offer humanized care. Psychosocial Care Center received film and theater performances to assist in the humanized treatment of mental disorders. This type of project is fundamental for the rehabilitation of people undergoing treatment for mental disorders: the possibility of cultural and artistic creation involves the subjectivity that patients themselves present during treatment with other professionals.