Hello, I'm Francesc de Diego. I won the Xarxart 2013 award, and I was a member of the jury for this award in 2017. It's an honor, due to the relevance of the meeting, both as a cartoonist (for both the award and for being able to be one of the selectors for the latest award), and as a user of Mental Health services. [...]
Happy anniversary FCCSM! The projects and actions that various people, linked to and committed to The Foundation, have offered us in the last two decades have been politically essential and highly appreciated. To share in these congratulatory words, some brief memories along with some of the people who committed themselves to the culture of [...]
20 years that have contributed to generating knowledge and sharing initiatives, reflection, and debate in mental health. 20 years that have incorporated richness and very valuable contributions to advance this joint commitment that we all share and defend: a mental health model that is community-oriented, focused on the recovery of individuals and their [...]
Hello everyone, First of all I would like to congratulate you on these 20 years of hard work and well done work. I don’t know if any of you will remember me: I am Marisa Blanco and I was part of the “Group of Thinkers” of the Congrés Foundation for many years as the mother of one [...]
Talking about the Catalan Congress of Mental Health Foundation implies talking about a commitment to people that stems from a very specific way of understanding mental health as an unavoidable prerequisite for a dignified life and as a demand that goes beyond material conditions because it is conceived, above all, as a right that [...]
The collaboration between the Catalan Association of Democratic Jurists and the FCCSM: an unexpected and fruitful response full of dignity - Someone from a mental health foundation called. - Oh, oh, oh, and what do they want? - Well, they say they are very concerned about the issue of refugees trying to reach Europe via the Mediterranean, [...]
The Foundation originated from the initiative of a group of professionals: David Clusa, Enric Falo, Daniel Garcia Tarafa, Ramón Martínez-Remacha, Lluís Mauri, Ada Ruiz, and Àngels Vives, who was the driving force and leader, members of the Board of the Collegiate Section of Psychiatrists of the Official College of Physicians of Barcelona (COMB), in Barcelona [...]
Ángels Vives Belmonte President of FCCSM (2000-2005 and 2014-2018) The dream I would like to tell is a little story about a dream. A dream that emerged from a small group. A group of professionals who formed the Board of the Section of Psychiatrists of the Official College of Physicians of Barcelona. The dream was to create a space where we could think again [...]
Images and memories In 1996 Dr. Isern, Lluís Isern, invited me to participate in a group that was preparing what would be the 1st Catalan Congress on Mental Health, which would address the topic “What is Mental Health?”, from an interdisciplinary and community perspective. The proposal seemed very interesting to me, and [...]
«»Those were the days...« As the Mary Hopkin song said: »Oh, what times...” I try to remember where I was at that moment. I was part of the Governing Board of what was then called the Official College of Psychologists of Catalonia (COPC). The year before, in 1999, we had been invited to participate in the 1st Congress of Mental Health, dedicated to trying to define Mental Health, and [...]"
