“Doctor, deciding to help someone without the tools is like trying to help someone who is drowning without being a lifeguard. If it’s okay with you, just take a punch, …
Perinatal Psychology
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It has often happened to me that people, even colleagues, have asked me how I can work peacefully with mourners. Faced with this question, a mental box opens up to …
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In this short article we tell what the Memory Box is, which CiaoLapo began studying in 2008, repurposing it for the Italian cultural context. Let’s go and see what it’s …
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Sometimes it happens to be contacted by the hospital, just in the hours when a mother is facing the birth of her dead baby. Sometimes it happens that it is …
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The minutes preceding and those following the diagnosis of stillbirth are difficult, very slow, painful. For those who are called to give the bad news, and for those who receive …
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In Urdu there is a saying that I love: “ghum-khaur”. It means “eaters of pain”, and identifies the community that gathers around those who are grieving, to absorb the torment. …
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A few years ago I left, together with other CiaoLapo mothers, for Genoa. We were supposed to go to greet a little boy, Nicholas, the infant son of one of …
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We miss having nothing of you. Still missing today, that there is almost no more pain, there is almost no more mourning. We lack an image to caress with our …
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Since 2007 I have been actively involved in helping and self-help relationships, both in online groups and in face-to-face groups, in which support is offered to people affected by perinatal …
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We present the extract of a degree thesis that we followed with CiaoLapo in the design phase. This work and its results are part of the broader line of research …