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International Congress on Mental Health Opening in Havana

CUBA, May 28, 2009. Professionals in psychic pathologies from Latin America and Europe will attend the 3rd International Congress on Mental Health, to be inaugurated on Thursday at Havana’s Convention Center.

The president of the event’s Organizing Committee and director of Cuba’s Mental Health Center (CENSAM), Dr. María Julia de Vales, told ACN that participating experts come from Argentina, Spain, Italy, Peru and Panama, and of course Cuba.

Vales that the number of specialists travelling to Havana for the Congress will probable increase, due to the interest awoken by themes included on its agenda, like schizophrenia, emotional diseases, alcoholism, drug addiction, neurotic disorders, sexual dysfunctions, psychic exhaustion and stress.

She announced that one of the most outstanding experiences of her institution will be presented during the opening session: personalized and comprehensive treatment of patients from the physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual points of view, as well as from the viewpoint of human relations.

The 3rd International Congress on Mental Health includes a University Student Symposium and training courses at CENSAM, in the Havana municipality of Playa, founded 44 years ago.

Its medical and paramedical staff has also offered its services, since 1997, to patients from other nations, in the specialties of general psychotherapy, drug addiction, relaxation and yoga, debates on films, and traditional medicine, by way of a warm family treatment contributing to a speedy recovery. (Cubaminrex- ACN)

 

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