Debriefing ai soccorritori della Thyssen-Krupp

The present article illustrates a group session, asked for by ANPAS Piemonte toPsicologi per i Popoli - Torino volunteers, following December 6, 2007 TurinThyssen-Krupp factory accident. "118" staff and volunteers who that nighthelped the workers involved in the fire participated in the session run by MariaTeresa Fenoglio, psychologist, and Beppe Melchiorre, counselor. Group work,where impressions and feeling about those horrible moments were shared,was based on enabling participants to give meaning to their intervention, thatunfortunately didn't manage to save those lives, and initiating the mourningprocess.