Added to our 20th anniversary celebration is an event that will mark this year, 2020, and likely many more years, with emotions tinged with pain, perplexity, fear, sadness, and ultimately the deepest sense of fragility: the COVID-19 pandemic. I remember months before the Foundation was established (14 [...]
From time to time, in professional life and in that of institutions, it's good to look back to appreciate, from a distance, the path taken. It is from here that we are most likely to grasp well what the purposes and energies were that set us in motion, what we were looking for and [...]
The current health emergency situation due to COVID-19 is having an enormous impact on various levels. Added to the uncertainty of its epidemiological evolution is the concern about the economic situation related to the lockdown implemented to control it, which entails a radical change in habits and forms of relationship. Already in previous epidemics [...]
La situació actual d’emergència sanitària per la Covid-19 està tenint un impacte enorme i a diferents nivells. A la incertesa de la seva evolució epidemiològica, s’hi afegeix la inquietud per la situació econòmica relacionada amb el confinament aplicat per controlar-la i que comporta un canvi radical d’hàbits i de formes de relació.La preocupació lligada a [...]
From the Catalan Congress of Mental Health Foundation, we denounce the violation of rights that once again they are suffering, in this case the refugees from the Mediterranean region (Greece/Turkey), and we adhere to the statement from Lafede.cat – Organizations for Global Justice. NO TO VIOLENCE AND VIOLATION OF RIGHTS [...]
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 [...]
Presentació del llibre Una història de la bogeria, escrit pel psiquiatre Lluís Torrent i il·lustrat per Francesc Rovira. Una història sobre com la societat ha tractat la bogeria al llarg dels segles, amb la presencia de l'autor i d'altres persones implicades en l'edició.El llibre ens proposa un recorregut sobre les diferents conceptualitzacions de la malaltia-salut mental al llarg dels [...]
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 reclama l’impuls de polítiques específiques de salut mental i un Pla Nacional de Prevenció de la mort per suïcidi Més de 500 persones del moviment social de persones amb problemes de salut mental i les seves famílies, juntament amb els professionals socials i sanitaris i representants polítics del sector, s’han convocat avui en [...]
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.
