"People are the best vaccine for our mental health", Mercedes Navío, Mental Health Coordinator of the Community of Madrid.
“People are the best vaccine for mental health,” said Mercedes Navío, coordinator of the Regional Office of Mental Health of the Community of Madrid, in the conclusions of the PROA Observatory on ‘The Challenges of Mental Health’, held last Thursday afternoon. “People are the ones who will save people, because [...]
PROA Observatory presents: 'El Click', three personal testimonies on the importance of mental health
The PROA Observatory has compiled in the documentary 'El Click' the testimony of professionals whose personal experience in the last two years has changed their lives. The pandemic and post-pandemic, together with the Spanish socio-economic framework and the international context, have led to an explosion of mental health problems in the general population, especially in young people and in two groups: the young and the old.
José Antonio Rodríguez Piedrabuena -- Ideology or science in brain health?
Los desequilibrios, las alteraciones de la salud mental, las alteraciones psiquiátricas, emocionales y conductuales, se deben a cambios específicos en el funcionamiento de las neuronas y sus sinapsis. Dichas alteraciones cerebrales se originan cuando alguna parte de los circuitos neuronales es hiperactiva, está inactiva o es incapaz de intercomunicarse con eficacia. La disfunción puede deberse […]
José Antonio Rodríguez Piedrabuena -- Mental Health Act: one step closer to demolition
Mental health should be planned for and meet the World Health Organisation's (WHO) diagnostic criteria in the international classification of diseases; which defines having an anxiety disorder, depressive disorder, substance abuse disorder, sexual dysfunction, schizophrenia or autism, to name a few. Does socio-economic factors have anything to do with adolescents and young people - specifically [...]
Olaf Holm -- The Triangle of Well-Being, Integration and Mental Health
The Triangle of Well-being is made up of three vertices consisting of the mind, interpersonal relationships and the brain. The harmony of integration is present to us, revealed as empathic relationships, a coherent mind and an integrated brain. The brain is the mechanism of the flow of energy and information throughout [...]
Emotional intelligence
In 1959 we had among us Professor Juan Rof Carballo, who wrote books such as Cerebro Interno y Mundo Emocional; Urdimbre Afectiva y Enfermedad and Cerebro Interno y Sociedad. What about Goleman and the rest of the crowd and the enthusiasm of the uninformed about emotional intelligence as an imported product and the [...]