PRESS RELEASE (12/05/2016)
Saturday, May 14, a Loano, to the 3:30 pm, at Civic Library in Kursaal Palace, a conference entitled “Body image, eating disorders”, organized by the’UNITRE of Loano under the auspices of the Municipality of Loano.
The topic will be explored in greater depth by the Dr. Stefania Lanaro.
“In our Western culture," explains the expert, Stefania Lanaro – The body has gone from being a means of learning about the world through discovery with pleasure and hope, to being an object, a personal world to be used, controlled, and modified in order to have a property that is appreciated.
Cultural analysis can undoubtedly be a crucial factor in defining body image, which is a process influenced by relationships with others. These relationships are characterized by expectations, ideas, verbal but mainly nonverbal communication that increasingly resembles other perfect, modified, observed bodies, objects and no longer subjects. It is therefore legitimate to ask what the link is between body image disorders and the onset of eating disorders.
The difficulty of recognizing oneself in one's own body, not seeing it as it is or being able to experience it only as an obstacle, blocks one's openness to the world, and the body as a means of communication becomes a constraint, an ugliness to be eliminated and replaced.
The struggle between the real body and the ideal body is a struggle of thought that manifests itself in the real world. all this should not lead us to consider thinking about the ideal as the cause of eating disorders, but all this extreme attention to body image and thinness becomes the direction in which to direct the malaise, discomfort, and identity disorder in search of a resolution, in search of meaning and, above all, a name when the loss is of oneself.”
Stefania Lanaro, She was born in 1966 and grew up and lived in the province of Savona, first in Varazze and later in Loano.
She is a physical therapist with a degree in psychology (bachelor's and master's degrees) but above all a psychomotor therapist.
She attended a three-year specialization course in Psychomotor Practice and then a two-year course on Individual Psychomotor Assistance at the Institute for Training and Applied Research (I.F.R.A.) in Bologna, a school that follows the principles of Bernard Aucouturier's Psychomotor Practice.
Started work at the Toirano Psycho-Pedagogical Medical Institute with children and youth with psycho-physical disabilities.
“It has been a difficult journey because contact with disability calls into question all one's ’academic knowledge“ but above all challenges all one's certainties and leads to the understanding that uncertainty, listening, and the desire to learn are the basis of one's work but also of one's life. Uncertainty, therefore, as a stimulus for discovery and for giving rise to the desire to continually question oneself. Places where bodies show their suffering, bodies that are similar and different from each other, where emptiness, fear, and suffering invade the entire space.”
This experience led to her Master's thesis in Psychology (which became a book) entitled “Incontrare il corpo” (Encountering the Body), in which she briefly describes the history and theory of the body but then focuses mainly on personal journeys, dances, distances and proximities, growth and crises, confidences and designs, but above all on bodies that become people.
