Vous êtes sur le site d'Underground Psychiatry

Cecília Cruz Villares

Occupational therapist, Master in Mental Health and family therapist by the Instituto Familiae in São Paulo, and certified in the Open Dialogue approach by the Institute for Dialogic Practice in New York.


She worked at the Department of Psychiatry at the Federal University of São Paulo from 1984 to 2017, where she coordinated clinical activities, research, publications, teaching, and supervision with a special emphasis on the interface between culture and mental health, on collaborative and dialogic practices with families, and on the effects of stigmatization on the lives of people with mental health problems.


She is also co-founder of ABRE (Brazilian Association of Relatives, Friends and People with Schizophrenia), where since 2002 she has been developing actions of care and support, education and advocacy in mental health.

At Noos Institute/São Paulo, where she is the director, she coordinates clinical activities, supervision and training in dialogic approaches and Open Dialogues in Mental Health.


Since 2020 she coordinates trainings in Dialogical Practices in Portugal and acts as an instructor in Open Dialogues training programs in Latin America.

{"item_0":{"type":"text","value":"\u003Cp style=\u0022text-align: justify;\u0022\u003EOccupational therapist, Master in Mental Health and family therapist by the Instituto Familiae in S\u00e3o Paulo, and certified in the Open Dialogue approach by the Institute for Dialogic Practice in New York.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\u0022text-align: justify;\u0022\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\u0022text-align: justify;\u0022\u003EShe worked at the Department of Psychiatry at the Federal University of S\u00e3o Paulo from 1984 to 2017, where she coordinated clinical activities, research, publications, teaching, and supervision with a special emphasis on the interface between culture and mental health, on collaborative and dialogic practices with families, and on the effects of stigmatization on the lives of people with mental health problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\u0022text-align: justify;\u0022\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\u0022text-align: justify;\u0022\u003EShe is also co-founder of ABRE (Brazilian Association of Relatives, Friends and People with Schizophrenia), where since 2002 she has been developing actions of care and support, education and advocacy in mental health.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\u0022text-align: justify;\u0022\u003EAt Noos Institute\/S\u00e3o Paulo, where she is the director, she coordinates clinical activities, supervision and training in dialogic approaches and Open Dialogues in Mental Health.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\u0022text-align: justify;\u0022\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\u0022text-align: justify;\u0022\u003ESince 2020 she coordinates trainings in Dialogical Practices in Portugal and acts as an instructor in Open Dialogues training programs in Latin America.\u003C\/p\u003E","backgroundColor":"#ffffff","online":1,"param_selector":"#view-params","paddingTop":"0","paddingBottom":"0","paddingLeft":"0","paddingRight":"0","sectionColor":"transparent","section-id":"","editor":""}}