This is a festive occasion, just as Pep would have wanted.
An act where we celebrate your imprint on all of us, a very living imprint that bears fruit in everyone's work and life. Pep's family wanted to gift us with this gathering, which allows us to tell each other, to say to him what we feel and are.
El Pep, first and foremost, has been a Good home, a wise man. Yesterday, speaking with the president of the association, he told me that Pep honored the profession with an intellectual and committed vision, especially through listening and dialogue. His broad, complex education, founded in psychoanalysis, was a solid base that you had to guess behind the spontaneity, simplicity, and common sense that inspired the dialogue we had with him.
His social and professional commitment, as Charles Alezrah recalled in his letter, was a commitment imbued with humanism, life, friendship, the fight against injustice, and an approachable and complicit demeanor that had the skill to not be swayed from his progressive and well-founded positions, using his characteristic wry humor.
Without being a peaceful man, but fighter for their ideals, the Pep inspired wood and emotional lettuce, her way of listening is a living memory that illuminates me.
His social commitment has been exercised in all its dimensions, but also in the medical profession. He led the Board of the collegiate section just after Roser Perez Simó did, from '88 to '92. Both from the section, and in collaborations with the City Council and especially in the direction of the Foundation, Pep has left us imbued with his savoir faire that made us feel good.
His name in psychiatry will forever be associated with psychiatric deinstitutionalization, with an ethical stance that placed the person and ethics at the center of all therapeutic action.
Pep, you will always be with us.