A chat with Antonio Carlos
Braga dos Santos
“Suicide: a matter of public
health” is the title and
theme of our editorial in
which it analyses the
prevention campaign od
suicide started in São Paulo
– SP, occurring in our
country at the moment.
Our today’s interviewed is
Antonio Carlos Braga dos
Santos, from São Paulo-SP,
organizer of the subject
“Suicide: A Silent Plague”,
talks about his proposal and
says how it appeared the
GAES – Aid Group to Spirits
in Suffering and his aims.
The interview is one of the
highlights of this edition.
“Anger – which feeling is
it?”, here is the title and
theme of the Especial
authored by Guaraci de Lima
Silveira, our collaborator
settled in the city Juiz de
Fora – MG. The article is
one of the spots in this
current number.
Happiness was the theme of
the workshop that
Divaldo P. Franco gave on
May 1st, 2016 in
Salvador – BA, it is
described by our
collaborator Paulo Salerno
in one report which is also
one of the spots of this
edition.
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In a day like today – May 15th
– it begun in the year 1925
in Lisbon the I Portuguese
Spirit Congress, at the
Atheneum Commercial of
Lisbon on 15, 16, 17 and 18th
of May. People’s affluence
and communications presented
quality were high, which
reverberated over all in the
city press. Among the
present names highlighted
Adolfo Bernardino de Sena
Marques and Cunha (student
of Science College in
Lisbon), Amélia dos Santos
Costa Cardia (physician and
writer) and António Joaquim
Freire (physician and
writer).
About one year later, on May
26th, 1926, it
was constituted the
Portuguese Spirit
Federation, with António
Joaquim Freire being
responsible for the legal
process.
