Surf and psychoanalysis, in Buggerru in Sardinia meeting on post-pandemic benefits with Castagna and Lucattini

“Vida loca” that of the surfer? Not so much, given the initiative on “Overcoming the lockdown on the waves with surf and ‘Self'”, which will be discussed in the meeting scheduled for Thursday 4 August, at 18.30 at Bananao Beach in Buggerru (South Sardinia Province). The protagonists of this presentation that connects sport and psychoanalysis, will be the surfing champion Lorenzo Castagna and the psychoanalyst Adelia Lucattini. To host the meeting, with free admission, is one of the most suggestive places in Sardinia, where the sport of wave surfing is widespread. “The pandemic – write the organizers of the initiative in a note – has tripled the psychological distress in the population, especially among the youngest, and has exposed the need in the country for a first level psychological network for prevention, promotion, listening and support that work in synergy with second level services for mental health. The meeting will highlight how a sport such as surfing can be therapeutic because it goes “beyond”, overcomes fear, puts in contact with their fears and makes them discover their potential “.” To testify will be Lorenzo Castagna, currently one of the most followed surf instructors in Italy and abroad and creator of the Loca project, a link between imagination and sport, where images, words, shapes and sounds meet the sea. The surfer and coach Lorenzo Castagna will talk with the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (Spi) Adelia Lucattini, who in this event enta the volume “Psychoanalysts in lockdown. Ephemerides of distant minds “(Solfanelli) edited with Monica Horovitz of the Societé pychanalytique de Paris (Spp)”. The volume collects the testimonies of a group of fourteen psychoanalysts located in different countries (France, Italy, Argentina and Lebanon), on their professional activity during the lockdown of March 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. These are reflections born within the group held by Monica Horovitz at the SPP since 2003 and stimulated by Argentine psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Janine Puget. The book is written in the form of a diary in which the authors are confronted with the ethical imperative to be close to their patients in a time of danger and global crisis. , also because it is “timeless” and perceived as threatening. Due to its nature and its unknowability, Covid -19 has left citizens and governors perplexed. ti, while the experts still do not have sufficient answers despite the grueling work in progress ”.