Virgile, Author at Meeting for Minds

Ten years – we have reached a beautiful mountaintop

Meeting for Minds path has been so rich. We are stunned and are stopping to reflect, be thankful and ask “what’s next”?

Remembering Professor Assen Jablensky

Assen Jablensky was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1940 and completed his medical degree and training as a psychiatrist in Bulgaria and the UK.

June 2024 : Back to Belonging

Our team is growing in Switzerland! Winter or Summer, wherever you may be in the world, I hope it is where you want to be. Sometimes it is not, I know, so we try to make the best of it.

Meeting 05 Episode 02 – Phenomenologically speaking

Alynka opens the discussion by introducing the Participatory Action Research (PAR) aspect of SYNERGIES to the group and the scene is set for a fascinating foray into phenomenology, where the individual’s experience is the focus of attention…

Meeting 04 Episode 01 – What’s the goal of our joint article?

In this final meeting of the CHUV – SYNERGIES collaboration, Jacqueline outlines possible articulations for publishing a report on the results of Chrysa’s research while Micah takes note of some in-depth observations from Alexandre.

Meeting 05 Episode 02 – What happens during decompensation?

Laurence goes into detail about how she experiences decompensation showing that, even within the reductive terminology of psychological diagnosis, the individual’s experience is of utmost importance and essential to gaining insight into the full problematic of mental illness.