Michael Clegg, Martin Guttmann, ‘Portrait of Rebecca Russo with the swan’, 2020, Videoinsight® Collection

Rebecca Russo: Founder, President.

Rebecca Russo is a philanthropist, contemporary art collector, researcher, author. 

She graduated from the Faculty of Clinical Psychology at the University of Turin, with the thesis ‘Contributions of the Rorschach Test to the nosographic differentiation of schizophrenic disorders’. The research, supervised by Prof. F. Freilone, was based on the administration of the ten plates of the Rorschach Test in a sample of fifty patients, with a full-blown diagnosis of schizophrenia, hospitalized in the Psychiatry department of the Casa di Cura Villa Patrizia in Piossasco. In the experimental study she correlated the typologies of dissociative disorder with the projective interpretations returned to the images of the test. The interpretations of the Rorschach plates were significant with respect to the differential diagnosis of the forms of schizophrenia: paranoid, disorganized, undifferentiated, residual, catatonic. 

Under the supervision of Prof. P. Henry, she created a rehabilitation project through the images of contemporary art, which involved thirty institutionalized women, not discharged following law 180, in the former Vittorio Emanuele III Psychiatric Hospital in Grugliasco.

She was a Researcher and Assistant at the University of Turin, in the Department of Psychology, collaborating in the courses Personality Investigation Techniques and Clinical Psychopathology directed by Prof. Liana Valente Torre.

She has worked in the fields of psychodiagnostic research, clinical psychology, systemic-relational psychotherapy, psycho-attitudinal orientation, psychological support in developmental age.

She has worked for psychological support and rehabilitation in the field of youth psychosis collaborating with the Aedes Integrated Therapy Studio in Turin, directed by Dr. P. Ferrero.

She founded the non-profit clinical counseling center Forma Mentis for the prevention of discomfort in adolescence at the Salesian High School M. Mazzarello in Turin.

She has conducted cinema-therapy experiences with heterogeneous groups of audiences.

She specialized in Systemic-Relational Psychotherapy at the Academy of Family Psychotherapy APF, directed by Prof. M. Andolfi.

She has a special passion for images. She created the Videoinsight® Collection, a progressive collection of contemporary works of art that is unique due to the curatorial profile that characterizes it: all the works in this Collection have a high psychological and evolutionary impact on the viewer.

Since 2010, she has been the creator of the Videoinsight® Brand and Method, verified in the medical field. Videoinsight® means awareness and transformation, simple and essential intuition, discovery that involves mind and affectivity, at a conscious and unconscious level.

She is the director of the Videoinsight® Center, a space for interaction with contemporary art. She launched the formats Videoinsight® Room, Videoinsight® Walk, Videoinsight® Interpretative Museum, Videoinsight® Training, Videoinsight® Prize, Videoinsight® Hotel, Videoinsight® Collector Room, Videoinsight® Channel, Videoinsight® Art For Care, Videoinsight® Emergency, Videoinsight® School.

In 2012 R.L. Russo introduced the Videoinsight® Method in Scientific Research in Medicine, in an experimental study regularly approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee, lasting one year, innovative and unpublished, carried out according to the most rigorous protocol, carried out at the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute of Bologna, an internationally renowned university hospital. The title of the research was: ‘Video- Acl Research: application of the Videoinsight® Method to improve functional recovery after reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament’. The study was conducted in collaboration with the team of the Second Orthopaedic Clinic of the University of Bologna directed by Prof. M. Marcacci. One hundred adult patients, undergoing a rehabilitation program, watched sixteen contemporary art videos from the Videoinsight® Collection, selected and evaluated based on their high or low potential for insight. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Videoinsight® Method to improve and speed up the patient’s functional recovery during the rehabilitation phase after surgical reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament of the knee. For the first time the Videoinsight® Method has been integrated into Medicine, as a support in Rehabilitation, in a rigorous and ethically legitimized scientific research protocol. The results of this research have been significant, published in international scientific journals with high impact factor since January 2013 and presented in international conferences: Toronto, Buenos Aires, Hiroshima, Delaware, Amsterdam, Sofia, Lyon, Geneva, London, Barcelona, ​​Genoa, Parma, Turin, Rome (2013-2015).

In 2013 R.L. Russo carried out the second experimental application of the Videoinsight® Method in Medicine at the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute in Bologna, in a Research called ‘Video -Tka’. The experimental study lasting one year followed a protocol regularly approved by the Ethics Committee according to the most rigorous scientific standards. The title was The use of the Videoinsight® Method to improve physical recovery after the implantation of a total cemented knee prosthesis. It was carried out in collaboration with the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation of the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute directed by Prof. M. G. Benedetti and with the Second Orthopaedic Clinic of the University of Bologna directed by Prof. M. Marcacci. In this second research, one hundred elderly patients following the implantation of a total knee prosthesis during the rehabilitation program were subjected to the Videoinsight® Method. The subjects were shown four artistic videos, selected for their Videoinsight® impact after the Tka surgery. The main hypothesis of the study was that the use of the Videoinsight® Method positively influenced the level of pain and was functional to the post-operative recovery of patients operated on total knee replacement at three months of follow-up. The results of the research were significant and presented in national and international congresses in 2015-2016.

In 2015, she conducted the international ‘Multicenter Pilot Study PF -Project’ for the use of the Videoinsight® Method as a ‘Therapy for the treatment of anterior knee pain in patients with patellofemoral problems not suitable for surgical treatment’. It was performed in America, France, Japan, Italy, specifically at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis at the Orthopedic Surgery Center directed by Prof. E. Arendt; at the Ljon Orthoclinic Chirurgie du Sport Hospital directed by Dr. D. Dejour; at the University of Kobe, in collaboration with Prof. R. Kuroda; at the University of Molise, Department of Medicine, Health Sciences and Wellness Sciences, in collaboration with Prof. A. Schiavone Panni; at the Rizzoli Institute in Bologna, in the Second Orthopaedic Clinic of the University of Bologna, directed by Prof. M. Marcacci, in collaboration with Prof. S. Zaffagnini. The significant results were presented at the SIOT and SIGASCOT National Congresses in Rome, at the Palazzo del Coni, in 2016. This was the third experimental application of the Videoinsight® Method in Medicine. In this case, the Videoinsight® Method was used as a Therapy and not only as a support for a post-surgical rehabilitation protocol.

Since 2013 R. L. Russo has been the Founder and President of the Fondazione Arte Scienza Videoinsight®, a non-profit organization dedicated to purely humanitarian purposes. It is the result of the experience of promoting psycho-physical well-being achieved through the application of the Videoinsight® Method: the innovative treatment based on interaction with selected works of contemporary art. The Foundation uses the Videoinsight® Collection. The fundamental objectives of the Videoinsight® Foundation are: the promotion and prevention of the psycho-physical well-being of individuals and the community through the application of the Videoinsight® Method, already tested in Medicine, with objective results, published and recognized internationally in the scientific community of Medicine; the scientific research for the application of the Videoinsight® Method in Medicine in the areas of prevention, rehabilitation, support and care; the international divulgation of the Videoinsight® Method in the contexts of social support, education, prevention, care, orientation of talents and human resources, improvement of the quality of life. The Foundation has activated 40 Videoinsight® Rooms in the following hospital facilities: Hospital for Special Surgery, New York; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Orthopedic Surgery Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA; Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences, Japan; Kobe University, Japan; OrthoSport Victoria Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; Sports Science Orthopedic Surgical Day Centre, Cape Town, South Africa; Department of Orthopaedics, Traumatology and Sports Medicine at the University of Hacettepe, Ankara, Turkey; Bulgarian association of arthroscopy and sport traumatology, Bulgaria, Saint George Hospital, Beirut, Department of Orthopaedics at Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, France, Lyon Orthoclinic Chirurgie du Sport et de l’Arthrose, Lyon, HUG University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland, Department of Surgery, Universitäts klinikum Freiburg im Breisgau, Freiburg, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology S.C.D.U. of the Mauriziano Umberto I Hospital, Turin, Consolata Fatebenefratelli Hospital, San Maurizio Canavese, Treatment and Hospitalisation Departments in the Complex Structure for Alzheimer’s and Other Senile Dementias UV, G. Pini Hospital Institute, University, Milan, University of Molise, Department of Medicine, Health Sciences, Well-being Sciences, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, Fornaca Clinic, Turin.

Tita Giunta:  CdA Advisor

Tita Giunta is an actress and theatre therapist; she graduated from Dams, with a focus on theatre, in 2003; she graduated from the three-year theatre therapy school in Colico in 2010; she is a member of FIT – Italian Theatre Therapy Federation; she graduated from the three-year theatre school Sergio Tofano in Turin and from the Musical School of the Teatro Nuovo in Turin. She has attended training workshops with actors and directors, including: Matteo Belli, Michele Di Mauro, Sergio Rubini, Giancarlo Giannini. She is the author of many theatre shows, host of theatre and theatre therapy workshops for children, adolescents and adults; she plays roles in advertisements, web series, short films and feature films of independent productions in Turin, such as Filmika and Ferrafilm. She is a pedagogue, radio speaker, performer. In 2010 she participated in the inauguration of the Videoinsight® Center with the performance “Insight” inspired by the work “La Buona Novella” by Robert Gligorov, since then she has always participated in the events and activities of Videoinsight® Foundation, with the role of Videoinsight® Coach. She worked in 2018 with Tino Sehgal for a performance on stage at the OGR in Turin. In 2022 she qualified to teach the History of Art and Support in Secondary Schools.

Carlotta Thione: CdA Advisor

Carlotta Thione, graduated in Art History at the University of Turin. She currently collaborates with the newspaper “Il Biellese”. She worked within Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto collaborating in the editorial staff of the “Journal”. She is the author of texts for art magazines and moderator of cultural events.