We are pleased to inform you that the Official College of Social Work of Catalonia has awarded the Gold Medal for Professional Career of the year 2020 to our colleague Jose Fernandez. The award ceremony will take place on March 17th at 5:00 PM in the Prat de la Riba Hall of the Institute [...]
Presentation of the book A History of Madness, written by psychiatrist Lluís Torrent and illustrated by Francesc Rovira. A story about how society has treated madness over the centuries, with the presence of the author and other people involved in the publication. The book offers us a journey through the different conceptualizations of mental illness and mental health over the centuries, from the early [...]
The values that have inspired the Catalan Mental Health Congress Foundation since its establishment in 2000 are, among others, the ethical and responsible commitment that gives meaning to the human adventure. Amidst a reality as harsh, sad, and unjust as the one we have been experiencing in this country for several years, with [...]
Sort calls for the implementation of specific mental health policies and a National Plan to Prevent Suicide More than 500 people from the social movement of people with mental health problems and their families, along with social and healthcare professionals and political representatives from the sector, have convened today in [...]
Professionals and experts analyze the social, symbolic, and subjective constructions of violence and how to address them in the conference “Extremisms and their violent derivations.“ On October 4, 2019, the conference titled "Extremisms and their violent derivations. Subjectivity and [...] was held at the Official College of Physicians of Barcelona.
Conference promoted by the Healthcare Ethics Committee of the FCCSM (CEA), the MARC (Medical Anthropology Research Center) of the URV, and the Open University of Catalonia
The Conference «Beyond the Sky or the Hell of Screens: A Look at Complexity», held on November 22, 2019, reflected on the presence of digital technologies in everyday life. Organized as a Pre-Conference for the 7th Catalan Congress of Mental Health of Childhood and Adolescence, it addressed [...]
The Conference «Extremism and its violent derivations: subjectivity and social bond», held on October 4, 2019, addressed violence as a complex social phenomenon and not as a natural or inevitable reality. The meeting reflected on the relationship between violence, the construction of subjectivity, and the transformation of social bonds and [...]
On October 17 and 18, 2019, the IX International Congress of Philosophy and Mental Health will take place at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Barcelona. The proposal for this new edition is part of a dialogue that welcomes different perspectives (medical, philosophical, psychological, caregiving, etc.) and has as its main objective to understand in greater depth [...]
Morning session on the risks and opportunities of the use of ICTs in young children, children and young people, as well as their vicissitudes in clinical practice. PresentationToday, screens (mobile phones, consoles, tablets, TV, etc.) are an integral part of the daily lives of most people, regardless of their age group. On the one hand, we know that they are a [...]
