International Psychologists Day: no time for celebrating in Portugal

Marking ‘the national day of the psychologist’ last week, SIC television news interviewed one of these professionals, working out of Hospital de São João in Porto to hear that people waiting for an appointment for their mental health can wait a year and a half, such is the shortage of psychologists within the State health system. In fact, such is the lack of emphasis on this branch of medicine that the national day of the psychologist was last commemorated five years ago…