Official statement addressed to leading Spanish institutions in the field of health and equality Madrid, February 17th, 2020 From the association El Parto es Nuestro and other associations working for the improvement of maternity care, we want to warn of the current dangers of judicialization and criminalisation of childbirth in Spain. This…
[Photo by Jenna Norman on Unsplash] With the collaboration of the British association Action on Postpartum Psychosis and on the occasion of World Maternal Mental Health Day 2019, the European Institute of Perinatal Mental Health launches a campaign to raise awareness, inform and promote the improvement in health care for women who suffer from…
[Foto: Olga Gouni (left) and Ibone Olza, CEO of EIPMH, during the course of Prenatal Psychology in Madrid] At what point does the construction of the human psyche begin? What memory or footprint leaves us what we experience in our mothers uterus? How does childbirth affect psychological development? Is it possible to heal traumas…
[Foto: the team from Hospital Clinic in Barcelona, receiving the award for best oral presentation. With Carmela Baeza, IBCLC, profesor at EIPMH (second from the left)] The European Institute of Perinatal Mental Health is proud to announce this year´s winners of two grants on research projects about Breastfeeding and Mental Health. The awards were…
From left to right: Isabel Fernandez del Castillo and Ibone Olza (European Institute for Perinatal Mental Health), Jane Fisher (President of The International Marcé Society), Prabha Chandra (National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences) co-organiser of the Congress Monday, October 1, 2018 Bangalore, India. On Friday, September 28th, the European Institute for Perinatal…
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…
