Consciousness, Culture, Language & Mental Health
Interviewer: Scott Douglas Jacobsen · Dialogue Panelists: Franca Borgia & Dr. Aninda Sidhana
An in-depth international dialogue exploring how inherited cultural paradigms shape individual cognition, trauma, and societal wellbeing. Franca Borgia (Venice-based artist, writer, speaker, and founder of the Venetian Forum 2026) outlines her concepts of collective paradigms, the "metabolism of the mind", root vocabulary, affirmations, and double-spiral painting. Dr. Aninda Sidhana (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; National Assistant Editor, IJPM) contributes psychiatric perspectives on cultural conditioning, cognition, trauma, psychopathology, cognitive restructuring, and art’s therapeutic value in clinical recovery.
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