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GIFRIC is a non-profit organization whose aim is:
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To respond to current challenges through effective innovations
that cannot be assimilated into the structures of traditional
mental health institutions…
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To promote a global and structural approach that acts on conditions
and causes rather than an approach that focuses on more limited
symptom-driven interventions…
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To create and promote clinical centers, research groups, programs
and projects aiming at the improvement of clinical and socio-cultural
interventions through an interdisciplinary approach…
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The objective is thus always both medium-term and long-term, as
it is grounded in an interdisciplinary approach whereby ongoing
research informs the orientation, management, and implementation
of interventions.
Established
in 1977, Gifric brings together more than thirty professionals from
diverse disciplines, such as psychoanalysis, the humanities, the
arts, the health sciences, etc.
Gifric
maintains its financial autonomy by utilizing only money collected
through clinical services, publications, training, and member contributions
and investments. Since it’s creation, Gifric has never received
government subsidies. This financial independence ensures that the
organization has full freedom of thought and action.
Through
innovative endeavors, Gifric supports and promotes new ethics as
it joins its regional, national, and international partners in transforming
conventional realities. These partners include public and private
institutions, organizations, and businesses. With these groups,
Gifric works to establish new places for study and projects in the
areas of:
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International
cooperation in research and training;
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Socio-cultural
factors that impact how we live together in society;
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Health as a cultural problem;
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The family as the basic unit of social co-existence, and thus
as an important factor in the problems of society;
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Art as witness to the possibilities and challenges within culture;
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Research
supporting the original clinic.
Gifric
also offers to its partners and to desiring others the opportunity
to learn about the new possibilities that can emerge from the ethical
position of it’s clinical training programs, educational offerings,
and training opportunities in areas as diverse as psychoanalysis,
mental health interventions, research in the social sciences, etc.
Gifric regularly encourages and provides forums for open debate
and discussion through conferences, seminars, working groups, and
publications.
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Groupe interdisciplinaire freudien de recherche et d'intervention clinique
et culturelle
342, boul. René-Lévesque ouest,Québec, Qc, Canada,G1S
1R9
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