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1/6/2010- Mind service |
Nicolas Pousthomis |
Borda Hospital is the largest Psychiatric hospital of Argentina. It covers 14 blocks and includes 22 pavilions called "Services" in the hospital’s slang. 991 males are confined, many of them chronic patients: men who have lost all contact with the outside world, with no other aim than watching the days go by among pills, cigarettes and sadness. A doctor tells us that the similarity between the patients is not fantasy; "the image I can visualize is a concentration camp, where everyone becomes alike. Here each person loses its unique characteristics; drugs block the thinking, make them lose bonds with the outside world and turn them into chronic patients. Inside the hospital, many groups such as Radio Colifata or Borda Artist Front work voluntarily helping the patients re-make a life project. Art, they say, is much more therapeutic than pills.
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