About Us
Joan Obiols
Doctor of Medicine, Specialist in Psychiatry (No. 8580). Bachelor of Philosophy and Letters (Cultural Anthropology).
I served as a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Barcelona from 1975 to 2000. I have collaborated as a professor at eleven Spanish and foreign universities. I worked at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona as a senior psychiatrist until 1998, when I was appointed director of the Mental Health Services of Andorra from 1998 to 2014.
Professor of Mental Health at the University of Andorra from 1998 to 2020. Secretary of the Transcultural Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association from 2005 to 2008.
President of the Board of Trustees of the ICEERS Foundation since 2013.
Co-author of a monograph on schizophrenia, and more than 50 articles published in national and foreign journals on various topics in psychiatry.
Author of over four hundred communications and posters for national and international conferences. I have devoted special interest to the study of altered states of consciousness and the therapeutic possibilities of psychedelics.
As a transcultural psychiatrist, in 1992, I had the opportunity to conduct fieldwork in the Ecuadorian Amazon, studying the use of ayahuasca among Shuar shamans, among other experiences in this field.
Member of the international team of Kosmicare volunteers for psychedelic emergency care at the BOOM Festival (2010, 2014, 2016, Portugal).