Tomaso Cocco: «Prison is corporal punishment, torture by other means»
The doctor, recently released after his arrest as part of the Monte Nuovo investigation, talks about his experience in prison
In the box, Tomaso Cocco
Prison is "corporal punishment" , organized "as if it wanted to make us forget that we have a body".
Tomaso Cocco , former head of the Binaghi pain therapy department, arrested last September in the Monte Nuovo investigation and recently released after almost five months in prison and one under house arrest, spoke on Facebook about his dramatic experience of detention in prison.
«Prison is first and foremost a corporal punishment, it is not a simple ban placed on freedom of movement , as we have tried to demonstrate so far. Corporal punishment because its purpose is to break the personality, in this way simply following the path marked by torture with other means ", writes the doctor, who spent a period in Uta and was then transferred to the Palermo prison.
Imprisonment, he continues, « is organized as if it wanted to make us forget that we have a body. The body rendered mute is a body to be forgotten . However, the ignored body stops reacting like a pet. And the caged animal reveals - even if it seemed domestic - characteristics that were little known until then."
Cocco talks about the physical pain he felt during his detention period. And he concludes: «The first discovery to be made is that the ignored body does not produce emptiness but pain: physical pain. Pain is a reaction to ignorance of the body, it serves to remind us that we are a body . It is the aspect assumed by the sense of reality, a criterion of truth that tries to anchor the mind to the world, telling us that we are part of it. It is the word of the dumb who are not allowed to gesture."
(Unioneonline)
