Dr. Josep Clusa i Matinero (1934-2013), he chaired the FCCSM between 2005 and 2013 after having driven its creation. It was the last professional challenge he took on.
Born in Barcelona, the youngest of three siblings, son of immigrants from a small town in the Pre-Pyrenees of Huesca: El Grado. As a child, he tinkered behind the counter of his parents“ bodega ”Los de Aragón" on Calàbria street, which over time, managed by his older brothers, would become a meeting point for the medical students of the Clínic where he was studying. After specializing in psychiatry, he began working in the psychiatry department of the Hospital de la Santa Creu. More specifically, he became involved with the Mental Institute associated with it; where he participated with a large group of professionals who, from the late 60s, promoted a movement to dignify and improve the care of the hundreds of chronically admitted patients. Simultaneously, he began his training as a psychoanalyst, eventually becoming a member of the Spanish Psychoanalytic Society.
In the 1980s, he had to lead the dismantling of the center and their forced deinstitutionalization. It was not an easy process, nor was it completely successful for some of the residents, despite the broad citizen support from their neighbors. However, they managed to promote new community care centers: day centers, supported living facilities, etc. Always attentive to scientific, social, and cultural movements and contemporary thought, he promoted congresses, conferences, courses, supervision spaces, and finally, from the FCCSM, interdisciplinary work and the search for dignified and rigorous care for people affected by serious mental disorders.