Keynote Lectures

Maria Grazia Canepa (i)

Assamblea annuale TI-PSISO

Assamblea annuale IS-TI-PSISO

Federico Peter (i)

Can health promotion slow down clinical medicine?

The report reflects on how health promotion, through the creation of supportive environments and behaviors, empowers individuals and communities to increase control over and improve their health. In line with the principles of Slow Medicine, it explores the transformative potential of interventions that strengthen individuals’ and communities’ sense of and involvement in self-care, slow down over-medicalization, and rebalance the relationship between clinical medicine and people’s real needs.

Giona Morinini (i)

Usefulness of motivational interviewing: sober, smart, respectful

Cornelia Klauser & Nicole Ferrara (i)

Ipnosie Slow Medicine (pratica dell’ipnosi in slow medicine) Slow and efficient (?) Con un linguaggio ipnotico (slow) posso accelerare la guarigione del paziente?

Nicole Ferrera: Come l’ipnosi si integra nella quotidianità delle cure (Introduzione al concetto ipnosi e al linguaggio ipnotico nella pratica quotidiana. Obiettivo chiaro per medico e paziente, approccio dichiarato o non, suggestioni dirette ed indirette, linguaggio non verbale)

Cornelia Klauser-Reucker: Esempi pratici (situazioni di ansia, agitazione (Es respirazione abbinato a safe place, dolore visualizzato in dettaglio).

Welcome address by OMCT President Dr. Franco Denti

Opening speech with Prof. Marco Bobbio (Sala Teatro)

In praise of sober, respectful and fair medicine

Western, reductionist and technological medicine has enabled huge advances in diagnosis and treatment, curing diseases that were fatal just a few decades ago. The growing success of scientific medicine has increasingly marginalized the human aspect, mandating that all patients be treated in a standard way and prescribing care for the average patient, not for that patient. Slow Medicine, which proposes a sober, respectful and just medicine, has been fighting for years to correct this trend.

François Pilet (f)

Éloge de la lenteur / Lob der Langsamkeit (Primary care)

“I waited a long time in your waiting room, doctor, but I knew that when I sat across from you in your office, you would be all there for me.” This sentence, which I heard or read many times when I retired, warmed my heart. But I would be a liar if I claimed to have resolved the merciless battle between chronos, the time in the waiting room, and kairos, the time in the consulting room. How can we live this tension without spoiling the most beautiful thing about our profession, our attention to others?

Isolde Busch (d)

Ökopsychosomatik in der Klimakrise: Neue Perspektiven auf psychische Gesundheit im Kontext globaler Veränderungen

In diesem Vortrag wird, ausgehend von dem sich entwickelnden Konzept der Ökopsychosomatik, untersucht, wie sich die Klimakrise auf das psychische und psychosomatische Wohlbefinden auswirkt, wobei auch das Zusammenspiel zwischen individueller mentaler Gesundheit und sozioökologischen Dynamiken berücksichtigt wird. Ein Überblick über klimabezogene Emotionen und psychosomatische Symptome bildet die Grundlage für eine anschließende Diskussion über Strategien zur Stärkung psychischer Resilienz und zur Förderung eines engagierten Umgangs mit ökologischen Krisen.

M. Bobbio, F. Pilet, I. Busch and more

Panel discussion

Luca Gabutti (f)

Smarter medicine/smarter decisions: 10 years: successes and critical questionsSmarter medicine

Just over 10 years have passed since the Smarter Medicine campaign was launched in Switzerland. 47 partner organizations and 32 top 5 lists of tests and treatments to avoid are celebrating its success. The same development has also taken place in the rest of the world, in over 30 countries where the movement has developed under the name Choosing Wisely or Slow Medicine. What have we learned? What remains to be done? How does this challenge affect us all?

Joachim Marti (f)

When trade shapes health: understanding and acting

Valérie D’Acremont (f)

Towards a robust and equitable healthcare system to meet global challenges

The Swiss care sector consumes the most energy resources, raw materials and nursing staff worldwide. It is therefore particularly vulnerable to material and personnel shortages, which are increasingly affecting our societies. This vulnerability comes at a time when the number of patients is increasing, precisely because of the harmful effects on health of the destruction of our environment. How can we break out of this vicious circle and fundamentally transform our healthcare system to make it resilient to these global challenges while ensuring truly equitable access to healthcare and prevention for the entire population?

Fiammetta Cosci (e)

The future of psychosomatic medicine: beyond biopsychosocial factors?

The dualistic approach of organic and functional has still not been overcome in science and clinical practice. Although the biopsychosocial model was proposed in the late 1970s, boundaries are still drawn in clinical disciplines. The notion that biological, psychological and social factors are separate entities to be assessed and considered is still prevalent, despite the conceptualization of biopsychosocial factors as interconnected elements that contribute to a comprehensive, holistic and global understanding of patients. The presentation will provide an insight into possible tools and strategies that can be proposed in research and clinical practice to update the biopsychosocial model, with the aim of overcoming reductionist or dualistic views and going one step further in the understanding of clinical and human phenomena.

Anne-Kathrine Geniets (d)

Equal access to mental health care for refugees traumatized by torture and war: Challenges in the Swiss context

Mental health care for refugees with torture and war trauma is a major challenge in the Swiss healthcare system. Despite existing structures, there are considerable barriers to equal access to adequate care. The article uses study data to analyze this inequality of access and discusses possibilities for therapeutic rehabilitation and promoting the social integration of this multiply disadvantaged population.

A. Geniets, F. Cosci, R. v. Känel (i, f, d, e)

Panel discussion

Raffaele De Rosa

Farewell by the State Councillor and Director of the Department of Health and Social Affairs.