UFPR Center of Studies on Drug Addiction Doctor Claude Olievenstein

Abstract

This is a university extension study about reported experience on the health area. This article describes theprofessional experience of launching and administrating the “Center of Studies on Drug Addiction DoctorClaude Olievenstein: Research, Teaching, Treatment and Prevention”. This paper also refers to the prehistoryand the launching of that Center which was on October 19th, 1999. The Center was part of the Schoolof Humanities of the Federal University of Paraná - UFPR. It was created by a group of UFPR professorsand professionals led by Victor Eduardo Silva Bento, professor of the Psychology Department. ProfessorBento was the first Center director up to may, 2005. Since its beginning, the Center has had a Cooperative Agreement with the Centre Médical Marmottan/Paris, at the time directed by Professor Claude Olievenstein.The CET activities of Research, Teaching and Clinical Extension, under the main theoretical orientation ofpsychoanalysis, debating with other theoretical orientations, were described. Finally, the Center prizes andgrants were mentioned.