On October 9 2025, Zoe Galinsoga, aid worker, nurse, and member of the European Institute of Perinatal Mental Health (IESMP), traveled to Slovenia to participate in the kick-off meeting of the project Mind the Mum, which involves collaboration with Cyprus University of Technology, the University of Gdańsk, Birth Forward (a Cypriot activist organization committed to…
By Javier de Domingo, perinatal psychologist, attended Marce Society International conference in Barcelona. I dare say that those of us who work in perinatal health, feel a deep call to do so. It is very likely that our work speaks as much about us as it does about the mothers and fathers we walk with.…
The work “Maternal Filicide in Canadian News Media” by Kim Rock, A. Corkett, Shekarak Ghashghaei and Professor Gina Wong has been accepted for presentation at the conference “Addressing filicide” that will be hosted at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, next November 14th -15th. The European Institute of Perinatal Mental Health is collaborating with these researchers…
Over 100 scientists, artists, professionals, activists, political stakeholders and service users from around 30 countries in Europe and beyond got together to unveil the complexity within normal childbirth physiology in different populations, individuals, and contexts, with a positive, salutogenic approach. Now, as the 4-year project BIRTH (Building Intrapartum Research Through Health), funded by COST reaches its end this Conference…
By Ibone Olza Ginny Liff is a British obstetrician who has spent most of her life working in Zimbabwe. Ginny says that last year, when she attended my talk about the psychology of childbirth and obstetric violence in Harare organised by The Friendship Bench she felt changed. She then decided she would disseminate this knowledge…
By Ibone Olza The European Institute of Perinatal Mental Health participated in this meeting of the Zimbabwe Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (ZSOG) together with the White Ribbon Alliance to promote Respectful Maternity Care. The meeting was organised by Obstetrician Ginny Liff, who has been collaborating with midwives Caroline Maposhere and Christina Rwadon over…
