There is no end to the tragic revelations about the Patras case, with child psychologist Christina Boyatzi, who has studied Georgina's drawings, claiming that the girl was afraid she would die.
This is not the first time this has been said, but it is of greater significance when such words come out of the mouth of a child psychologist. Specifically, the child psychologist spoke to ERT about what she discerned while studying the drawings of the 9-year-old girl who died due to an overdose of ketamine.
Why do children use drawing
"Children use drawing because they cannot express their feelings with the verbal competence that an adult could," the expert told the "From the Six" programme. Speaking about Georgina, the expert stressed that it was a peculiar case with the child psychologist saying that through painting she was able to see the child's deep messages, that "she is in danger, she feels anxiety, she feels insecure."
According to Ms. Boyatzi, "children through the drawings take the static object and make it dynamic."
"She wanted to show something."
As she said, "through Georgina's eyes in the drawings we understood that she wanted to show something." In this case, "there was an absence of emotion from the mother beforehand," he said, adding that "the drawing of her mother's black head indicated that she was afraid she was going to die. She was a very dynamic child, she was running, playing, dancing."
He even pointed out "that when a child is fearful in her environment, this is potential abuse. Death to a child is anything that threatens their mental health. Children feel death much more deeply than we do, perhaps because they have not demystified it," said Ms. Boyatzi, adding that in Georgina's drawings the struggle within her between the instinct of life and the instinct of death could be seen."
As an expert, she explained, she felt particularly difficult about what she saw in the child's drawings because "the mother is the last person we want to identify as a threat because she is the first object of love, security, life for the child."
The child psychologist said that Justice will take into account the conclusion of the clinical child psychologist Despina Savoglou, who also saw the parents in person, where it is established that the child lived in a very unfavourable environment.
For the same case, forensic scientist Dimitris Galenteris pointed out that "science did everything it had to do", stressing that with the new evidence the conclusion is homicide.
Source: in.gr
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