It is a pleasure for me to participate in the commemorative book for the 20th anniversary of the Catalan Congress of Mental Health Foundation, an organization born with the aim of transmitting the interdisciplinary, intersectoral, and comprehensive nature of mental health care in our country. From the very beginning, it brought together professionals from different disciplines and fields, [...]
Living the Dialogue We met the Foundation in 2006, during the celebration of the “3rd Catalan Congress on Mental Health.” At that time, Nikosia was welcomed kindly and bravely as a means of communication and as a space/context from which the issues that had been raised in conferences and panels were re-examined [...]
On the twentieth anniversary of the Catalan Congress of Mental Health Foundation. Since the Foundation was established, mental health and addiction care has made extraordinary progress in our country. It is true that, at least since the 80s, and especially since integration into the national health system, the [...]
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 [...]
20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDATION Hello everyone, First, I wanted to congratulate you on these 20 years of much hard work, and very well done. I don't know if any of you remember me: I'm Marisa Blanco, and I was part of the “Think Tank” for many years.
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, [...]
