CFP: II International Mental Health Congress of Romao de Sousa Foundation: The neurobiology -- psychotherapy -- pharmacology intervention triangle

October 21, 2016 - October 22, 2016
Fundação Romão de Sousa

Fundação Romão de Sousa
Estremoz
Portugal

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  • Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

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II International Mental Health Congress of Romao de Sousa Foundation:    The neurobiology -- psychotherapy -- pharmacology intervention triangle   Weights, measures and controversies

In the 19th century, the Western World observed dramatic changes in mental health provision and understanding. William Tuke (1732-1822) in the UK and Philippe Pinel (1745-1826) in France were in the forefront of a humanizing movement known as “moral treatment”.

This humanization of services seems to have been put aside for a good number of years through the 20th century, giving rise to the maintenance and spreading of a large number of asylums (super large mental health institutions) where the sufferers of mental distress were severely separated/segregated from external reality and the rights of “normal” (adapted) people.

During the second world war, a number of British doctors started the Therapeutic Community movement in the UK, inspired by Tuke and Pinel´s ideas. They observed that transforming the environment of the “mentally ill” would also dramatically change their condition. A number of similar movements spread through Europe and the US giving rise to a new understanding of mental illness, sometimes even contesting the term illness itself, attempting treatment without medication.

Side by side with the growing therapeutic community movement and the humanization of services we observed the growing “technology” of interventions based on value-free science, which many times ended dehumanizing relationships. There is an implicit conflict between being-with (humanistic values) and doing-to (technical expertise). 

This is particularly true in settings that are influenced by psychiatric manuals like DSM which suggest the existence of objective states which are value-free and where concepts such as “psychotic” or “neurotic” entered the daily discourse and gained legitimacy. Nowadays quick fix culture is, therefore, dominated by a technical-rationality model of science, which some authors coined as the McDonaldization of society.

How can Being and Doing co-exist in the service of patients and families? The relational paradigm and the scientific postmodern era arose at the same time that positivism and empiricism are growing. There are disparate movements of integration and sectarism; important differences between affective and cognitive neuroscience; large gaps between theory and practice; contradictory evidence for and against “broken-brain” models. Is it possible for science to go back to “the ordinary” and start being human again, acknowledging the impossibility of separating figure from ground?  In this Congress and in the Training Events attached we will try to bring together different world-views, using science to inform humanity and humanity to inform science.  

One week full of events!  

Come and experiment living on a Psychologically Enabling Environment for three days. Listen to experienced speakers  

Present your work (call for papers open - early bird fee).

Enroll on a two-day training on how to use psychotherapeutic principles in challenging clinical settings. 

ORGANIZING COMMITEE

JOÃO G. PEREIRA, University of Évora and Romão de Sousa Foundation (Chair)

CÁTIA RIBEIRO ALVES, Romão de Sousa Foundation and SPPC

TATIANA GIL FERREIRA, Romão de Sousa Foundation and SPPE

CHRIS EVANS, East London NHS Trust and Nottingham University

JORGE GONÇALVES, New University of Lisbon

CLÁUDIA PEDRO, Romão de Sousa Foundation (Secretary)

SARA PREZADO, University of Évora (Co-Secretary)

INÊS HIPÓLITO, Doctoral College Mind-Brain, University of Lisbon

MADALENA SERRA, Espírito Santo Hospital, Romão de Sousa Foundation

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

JOÃO G. PEREIRA (POR), University of Évora and Romão de Sousa Foundation (Chair)

CHRIS EVANS (UK), East London NHS Trust and Nottingham University (Co-Chair)

SIMON DU PLOCK (UK), Metanoia Institute, London

CÉLIA SALES (POR), University of Porto

FRANCISCO ORTEGA BEVIÁ (SPA), University of Seville

ISAURA MANSO NETO (POR), Portuguese Group Analytic Society

JOÃO MARQUES TEIXEIRA (POR), University of Porto

SOFIA TAVARES (POR), University of Évora

JOHN GALE (UK), International Network of Democratic Therapeutic Communities and CHT

JORGE GONÇALVES (POR), New University of Lisbon

LUCA MINGARELI (IT), Il Nodo Group and Associazione Rosa dei Venti

ADELINDA CANDEIAS (POR), University of Évora

DIMITRIS MOSCHONAS (GR), Open Psychotherapy Center and National Organization for Psychotherapy

FARRELL SILVEBERG (USA), IFPE International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education

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May, 23th 2016

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