New Paradigm Integrating Science and Humanity in Mental Health Care

Health
Ethics
Humanities
Art & Aesthetics
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Expert care
Integrated interventions
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Approach

All-encompassing Methodology. 
Merging medical expertise, ethics, humanities, 
and art and aesthetics to foster healing and growth.

Health

Delivering personalized care through evidence-based psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, and lifestyle interventions—restoring health by addressing the whole, embodied individual.

Ethics

Ethics becomes lived practice—shaping embodied, enactive approaches to psychiatric care and guiding sensitive decisions throughout all stages of life.

Humanities

Grounded in philosophy and medical humanities, the intervention is attuned to the human condition at an existential level, integrating phenomenological insight into the treatment process.

Art & Aesthetics

Recognize the vital role of creativity, expression, and personal reflection in mental health and interventions within relational and systemic care.

Core Principles of Clinical and Academic Practice

Patient-Centered

Humanistic-Existential
methodology

Interdisciplinary

Blend of natural
and human sciences

Patient-Centered

Backed by the most recent
and groundbreaking research outputs

Awards & Education

Associate Professor of
Psychiatry & Medical Ethics
College of MedicineUL
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
College of Medicine,
Universidade Católica
Director Centre of Bioethics
and Medical Humanities
College of MedicineUL
Head of Psychiatry
CUF Descobertas Hospital
President-Elect
Portuguese Society of
Psychiatry & Mental Health
Member
National Council of
Ethics for Life Sciences