30/03/26

Easter Timetable

The Biblioteca Historicomèdica (Historical Medical Library) will be closed during Holy Week and Easter, between April 3 and April 13, both days included.

We apologize for any inconvenience

27/02/26

Library closed during Fallas

During Fallas the Biblioteca Historicomèdica will remain closed from 14th to 22nd March. 

We apologise for the inconveniences.

18/02/26

Library closed in the afternoons of 24 to 27 of February

The Researchers' Room of the Biblioteca Historicomèdica will be closed on the afternoons of next 24 to 27 of February, both included (from 14:00h on). You will have the Study Room on the first floor at your disposal.

If you need to return your book, you can leave it at the concierge desk on the ground floor.

We apologise for any inconvenience

08/01/26

Publication of the collective volume ‘La clínica de la subjetividad’ (The Clinic of Subjectivity), coordinated by Enric Novella

Enric Novella, professor of history of science at the University of Valencia and researcher at the IILP, has coordinated the publication of the collective volume La clínica de la subjetividad. Psychopathology (structural) and culture (contemporary), published at the end of 2025 by Tirant Humanities. Attached is the text of your editorial presentation.

Starting from the widely held view that psychiatry and clinical psychology face a significant crisis of legitimacy stemming from their insistence on tackling the study of subjectivity with the methods and assumptions of the natural sciences, this book examines from a multidisciplinary perspective (historical, clinical, anthropological and literary) the origins, foundations and cultural embedding of the holistic, reconstructive and hermeneutic approach to the experience of madness and psychic suffering advocated by structural psychopathology and, more specifically, by phenomenological-anthropological psychopathology. In this way, its successive chapters address the historical trajectory, the epistemological demands and the current relevance of the (structural) psychopathology project in the context of the prevailing dissatisfaction with the impoverishment (or the very abolition) of psychopathological activity, of the enormous projection of psi knowledge and practices into contemporary societies and of the growing historiographical and cultural interest in the experience of otherness, autobiographical narratives and testimonial literature.

22/12/25

Christmas Timetable 2025

On the occasion of the Christmas and New Year holidays, the Biblioteca Historicomèdica will have the following opening hours:

• Researchers' room and staff-assisted services (lending, room consultation, etc.): Closed from 23 December to 6 January, both included. On Decemer 22 the room will remain closed in the afternoon. On January 7 the room will be open from 1:00 pm to 8:00 pm.

• Study room: Closed from 24 December to 6 January inclusive, with the exception of 29 and 30 December, which will be open from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm.

Merry Christmas!!