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Argentinian asylum’s art program turns out work to rival professional competitors

Psychologists and patients are seen taking part in a workshop at Jose Borda Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Buenos Aires. The art workshops that function since 1984 at the hospital, the largest neuropsychiatric hospital in Argentina, are an effective tool to ease mental suffering, artists and health professionals claim.

Hundreds of patients at Argentina’s biggest mental hospital are turning fine arts training into real ability as painters, actors and musicians, and getting a fuller sense of self along the way. “Art really can be a tool for change in society. And you can see its effects, because art can…

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