New Paradigm Integrating Science and Humanity in Mental Health Care

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Personalized therapy
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
methodology
Interdisciplinary
Blend of natural
and human sciences
and human sciences
Patient-Centered
Backed by the most recent
and groundbreaking research outputs
and groundbreaking research outputs
Awards & Education

Associate Professor of
Psychiatry & Medical Ethics
Psychiatry & Medical Ethics
College of MedicineUL

Associate Professor of Psychiatry
College of Medicine,
Universidade Católica
Universidade Católica

Director Centre of Bioethics
and Medical Humanities
and Medical Humanities
College of MedicineUL
Head of Psychiatry
CUF Descobertas Hospital

President-Elect
Portuguese Society of
Psychiatry & Mental Health
Psychiatry & Mental Health

Member
National Council of
Ethics for Life Sciences
Ethics for Life Sciences