Continuing professional training course for journalists
National Council of the “Ordine dei Giornalisti” (Association of Professional Journalists)
Regional Council of the “Ordine dei Giornalisti” (Association of Professional Journalists) of Tuscany

Coordinated by Simona Maggiorelli (journalist)

Speakers: Ilaria Cornetti (Judge, Court of Siena), Cecilia Chiavistelli (Journalist), Simona Maggiorelli (Journalist), Adriana Pannitteri (Journalist), Federico Tulli (Journalist), Mariopaolo Dario (Psychiatrist), Domenico Fargnoli (Psychiatrist), Annelore Homberg (Psychiatrist), Elena Monducci (Psychiatrist)

MORNING
I. Notes on general psychiatry
10 am Registration
10.20 am – 10.45 am Introduction, Professor Anna Pettini (University of Florence)
10.45 am – 11.15 am Scientific studies on the relationship between mass media and psychiatry (A. Homberg)
11.15 am – 11.45 An introduction to the history of psychiatry (A. Homberg)
11.45 am – 12 pm Coffee Break
12 pm – 12.30 pm Italian psychiatry in the twentieth century: psychiatric legislation and the scientific cultural debate (M. Dario)
12.30 pm – 13.00 pm An outline of psychiatric nosology I (A. Homberg, E. Monducci)
13 pm – 13.30 pm Lunch Break

AFTERNOON
II. Notes on general psychiatry
14.15 – 15.15 The issue of imputability from the standspoints of the judiciary and psychiatry (I. Cornetti, D. Fargnoli, S. Maggiorelli)
3.15 pm – 16 pm How do mass media report crimes (A. Pannitteri)
Journalistic language used in reports of children abandoned in vehicles (F. Tulli)
4 pm – 4.30 pm Observations on the prevention of mental disorders (E. Monducci)
4.30 pm Discussion

Free admission

Address: Campus of Social Sciences, building D4, room 005 – Department of Economics and management, University of Florence, via delle Pandette, 21 – Florence.