SAPPIR/GASIR

Founded in 1994, SAPPIR is a specialised service focused on carrying out research and providing care to extra-community immigrants and refugees.

The centre is a specialised service run by GASIR (Grup d’Assistència Sanitària als Immigrants i refugiats -  Healthcare Group for Immigrants and Refugees), and specifically treats health problems experienced by this collective. The centre is run by Dr. Carles Ballús and Dr. Jordi Font.

GASIR was founded in 1990 by a multidisciplinary team of doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists and anthropologists in order to: 

  1. Develop specific programmes in the fields of psychoanalysis and mental health (SAPPIR).  

  2. Promote collaboration between health and social science professionals.

  3. Offer an open and interdisciplinary forum for reflection and debate. 

  4. Encourage contact between immigrants and social networks and with the local community.

  5. Raise social awareness of the importance of helping to solve this problem. 

Our principal objectives are:

  • To offer patients free psychological and social support, whatever their clinical and social situation

  • To provide psychological treatment based on a transcultural psychiatric and psychological perspective  

  • To offer training and supervision to other professionals

  • To participate in humanitarian missions (for example, participation in the Kosovo war)

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Develop specific programmes in the fields of psychoanalysis and mental health (SAPPIR).  

  1. Promote collaboration between health and social science professionals.

  2. Offer an open and interdisciplinary forum for reflection and debate. 

  3. Encourage contact between immigrants and social networks and with the local community.

  4. Raise social awareness of the importance of helping to solve this problem. 

Our principial objectives are 

  • To offer patients free psychological and social support, whatever their clinical and social situation

  • To provide psychological treatment based on a transcultural psychiatric and psychological perspective  

  • To offer training and supervision to other professionals

  • To participate in humanitarian missions (for example, participation in the Kosovo war)