in the wonderful scenery of the Council Chamber of the City of Palermo, Friday, February 26, 2010 was held the National Conference On Pet Therpy. 
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Caring for a pet can improve quality of life, reducing anxiety and downsizing-related stress of everyday life. Not only that: the interaction between man and animal can, in some cases, propose as adjunctive therapy to complement the care already provided in the case of diseases such as autism, behavioral disorders, physical disabilities and mental health and depression.
It's called "pet therapy", Anglo-Saxon expression which, translated into Italian, means something like "zooterapia" he announced for the first time the benefits that the child psychiatrist Boris Levinson in 1960, spread his theories on the effects that the company endeavored to small animal patients under treatment.
Palermo was the star in recent days, the first national conference on the subject, entitled "The use of a proper relationship between man and animal for a psychological rehabilitation: the pet - therapy in Italy ", held at the Council Hall, in the presence of speakers and experts from all over Italy.
initiative strongly supported by Rosario Filoramo city councilor, who stressed the need to initiate a reflection on the complexities characterizing the relationship man - animal, especially in light of the behavior, often unethical, that the first reserve in the second. "It should be - observed Filoramo has always been committed to the spread of sports culture - recall the relationship between humans and animals, not forgetting that in the past, so they were tools, but also indispensable companions for life ".
If it is true that the ill-treatment towards the animals are never justifiable, are even more incomprehensible if one takes into account the potential and immense resources that dogs, cats, horses and other species can make available to man: no by chance, the conference was also an important opportunity to explain the results that some psychiatrists, educators and veterinarians have experienced in their specific areas.
A moderate the meeting, organized by "The Leopard", was the president of that Vincenzo Allegra, veterinary, the head of the Regional Equestrian Union League Italian Sport for All (UISP), whose primary mission is to extend to all citizens the right to physical activities. Among the most significant, the psychiatrist and child neuropsychiatry Matthew Allon, Jungian psychoanalyst, leading to impressive results in animal-assisted therapy in juvenile delinquency.
Director of Mental Health Day Centre 5 Company, president of the non-profit organization "The Centaur" and honorary judge of the Juvenile Court of Messina, Allone has emphasized the role that government should play in supporting activities the pet therapy, rescuing and episodic nature of their income stream. "The projects - said Allone - makes sense only if it is realized in time, because, if the subsidies are transitory, are of no value." A consideration
fully endorsed by the Department for Social Activities of the Municipality of Palermo Raoul Russo, who has assured the full availability of the administration in office in launching knowledge and appreciation of pet therapy, innovative and fascinating activities that only recently received due recognition, with an extensive use in various fields such as social care homes, hospitals and community recovery. Especially
surprising, in that sense, the results appear with hippotherapy: according to the Allon, the relationship between man and horse is a carrier of significant improvements for those who are blind or suffering from Down syndrome, is perhaps the city Messina in Sicily where they were made, in this sense, the most exciting experiences, with particular reference to numerous conferences that have helped give scientific legitimacy to the paths taken, and some rehabilitation projects that have involved subjects particularly at risk of delinquency.
Last year, the city of the strait was held the event "Magical Horse" - organized by The Leopard, at the Fort Ogliastri, in an area called "Carousel", notorious for high crime incidence. The horse, then. It seems that no other animal is able to convey positive messages so effectively, leading to mediation and appeal, transformation and growth, as witnessed during the course of the conference also Ester Fazio, Associate Professor of Physiology at the University of Messina and Gen. Stephen Sweet, the national horse riding instructor, a long experience with horses that developed also in the Army and as a judge in competitions.
According to the educator Elizabeth Parrinello, educator dog, a specialist in animal-assisted activities and therapies, the relationship between humans, horses, dogs and cats, it would even be of fundamental importance because it is rich in growth, mutual, open, very supportive and especially for the patient: a panacea in a position to seek joy, serenity and love. "On Piazza Armerina, nell'ennese - he explained - has been realized a project of pet therapy that involved students with learning disabilities, enabling the achievement of quality results: improved self-esteem and reducing anxiety, first among all. "
From Messina to Enna, Palermo through: even the professor Antonio Bongiorno, a physician, psychotherapist, professor of Clinical Psychology of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Palermo, said that "the animal active sense of initiative, encouraging behavior exploratory, recovering a non-verbal communication, more related to the physical: in a dialogue with non-human creature no one feels judged, anxiety and stress disappear. "
not only through their relationship with their horses but, more generally, with all animals, as explained by Dr. Silvia Ferretti, of Onlus "The Ark of Seprio" Varese, who described the positive results achieved with co-therapists "such as cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens and dogs. The pet therapy, therefore, facilitates the ability to synchronize with the animal to induce a pro-social attitude of care and nurturing to the animal itself. An ethical approach and "friendly" against those same animals that, too often, victims of human cruelty, which is expressed through abuse, abandonment, murder.
This aspect of the relationship between man and animal spoke to the psychiatrist and psychotherapist Della Villa Lucia, a member of the Scientific Committee, Pet Therapy Bioethics, Messina, which has reported on the issue of abuse against animals, with particular reference to the relationship between crime and abuse. The figures speak for themselves: in Italy, 15% of rapists with violence extended to animals, and 30% of child molesters committed acts of cruelty to dogs or cats during infancy ol'adolescenza.
animal cruelty such as training of cruelty to men? It would seem so, yes, it is true that numerous studies conducted in the United States from the '60s to today, just show that there is a direct link - is the same FBI to admit it - against the barbarism of human and animal species: in some cases, some would even killer admitted to killing animals to live again, through their death, the pleasure experienced by killing men. Cruelty to animals is, therefore, a psychiatric symptom, and not just condemn it firmly defend them, as pointed out by Dr. Della Villa, not just abstain, but above all militate in favor of the rights of the voiceless.
(Marianna La Barbera)
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