Josep Vilajoana i Celaya, a doctor of psychology and psychotherapist, has chaired the Catalan Congress of Mental Health Foundation for six years. With experience in drug dependence, health, and aging, Vilajoana is a specialist in coaching for health and well-being, and in work-life balance. He has been dean of the Official College [...]
Conference organized by the Ethics Committee of the Catalan Congress of Mental Health Foundation Fundamental rights of patients during involuntary psychiatric hospitalizations • The aim of the conference is to analyze the legal dimension of involuntary psychiatric hospitalizations and to recall the normative and protective nature of the rights guaranteed by current legislation. Experts will participate [...]
10th Session “La Xarxa a Debat” "THE WELL-BEING OF PROFESSIONALS AND TEAMS" Barcelona, October 9, 2020 Last October 9th, the 10th edition of "La Xarxa a Debat" took place remotely, with the participation of over 130 professionals. The session featured three high-level professionals who [...]
Barcelona, May 9, 2015 (Casa Orlandai). Event in memory and tribute to our colleague, friend, founder, and president of the FCCSM from 2005-2013.
On the occasion of the Foundation's 10th anniversary, a Conference was held at the Auditori Axa in Barcelona on December 15, 2010. The aim was to commemorate the Foundation's 10 years, recall its foundational and guiding principles, and discuss current and future issues. > See program > [...]
Twenty years ago, coinciding with the founding year of the Catalan Mental Health Congress Foundation, on February 11, 12, and 13, 2000, my dear friend Valentin Barenblit, then director of the Organizing Committee for the Second Interdisciplinary Colloquium. Transformations. Psychoanalysis and Society, organized in Barcelona by iPsi, invited me [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
