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Welcome, everybody.

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My name is Łukasz Cichocki,

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and I will tell you something
about Pan Cogito Hotel,

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which was mentioned just right now.

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But before, I would like to tell [you]

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about the way to Pan Cogito Hotel.

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So, Pan Cogito is an element

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of an integrated
community treatment program

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for people suffering
from schizophrenia, in Cracow.

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And this integrated community program

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was supported by the spirit,

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by the [ideas]
of Professor Antoni Kępiński.

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I hope that some of you,
especially [people] from Cracow,

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know this name.

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This man was a Professor of Psychiatry.

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He lived in the 20th century,
died in 1972.

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And he taught
Cracow's psychiatry many things.

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I would like to mention three of them

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that are, I would say, the most crucial,
or most important things

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in the [relationship]
between the psychiatrist and the patient.

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The first [one] is respect.

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Respect as, I would say, the basis,

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and the thing without which
we can't help other people,

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especially people with mental disorders,

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with mental problems.

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I was not sure whether to say
what I will say now,

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but German Nazis were present
a couple of times

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during today's sessions,

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and I would like to mention them
once again.

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Because disrespect for mentally ill people

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sometimes leads to very horrible things.

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In the German Nazi [era],

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more or less 200 thousand
mentally ill people were exterminated,

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just because of the fact
that they were mentally ill.

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I know that it is, say, the most --

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The biggest example of disrespect.

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But this disrespect
is quite common also today.

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And we as professionals,

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but I think also we as people,

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we should [point out] this disrespect

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to our neighbors, our colleagues,
our friends, sometimes,

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or our family [members].

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Because, as I [said], without this respect

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we can't be helpful,

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and we can't be effective
in this relationship.

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The second thing
that Prof. Kępiński taught us

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that is very important,

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is listening to these people.

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There was a time in psychiatry,
quite a long time,

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that psychiatrists or professionals
"knew better"

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what was good for people
with mental disorders.

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And let's say that this inequality

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was also in this [aspect of]
"We know better,

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and so we don't need to listen to them."

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And we learned from Prof. Kępiński,

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but we also learned it from our patients,

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how important it is to listen to them.

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To listen to what they say,

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to pay attention to what they feel.

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To listen to what they need from us.

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Because it's not so --

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Everybody needs something else,

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something that is [unique to] this person.

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Respect, listening,
and the third thing is supporting.

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Because it's not enough
to respect and to listen.

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These people are very often
in very big pain, very big suffering.

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They are very often isolated,

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socially isolated,
they are withdrawn emotionally.

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And they need some kind of encouragement

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to go out of this isolation,

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to start to be with other people,
live with other people,

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to cooperate with other people.

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And this support has different aspects.

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Because, of course, there is an aspect
of verbal support,

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where we say some words
that are supportive for these people.

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But it's sometimes not enough.

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Sometimes, we need to create
some kind of social space

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for these people.

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Some social space that would be more safe,

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or more nice than usual social spaces,

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in order to help them
to make this step from this isolation

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towards the outer world.

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In these three things,

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we use different tools,
or methods, to help these people.

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One of them is, of course,
pharmacotherapy.

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There are many situations

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in which we can't help
these people effectively

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without the help of the [medication].

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But it is, in many cases, not enough.

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Many of these people
have such a difficult life history,

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such difficult events in their lives,

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that they really need
different kinds of psychotherapy.

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It could be individual,
group or family psychotherapy.

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In order to make their lives
more understandable,

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in order to share their problems,

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in order to see that other people
understand them,

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but also to see
that they can change their lives,

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that they can cope better
with various kinds of stress,

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or the various kinds of trauma
they encounter.

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Another important aspect
we try to use in helping these people

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is the social approach.

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In many cases,

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they need not only psychotherapy
or pharmacotherapy,

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but they need a safe place to live in.

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For example, a sheltered flat.

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They sometimes need their free time
[to be organized].

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So, I've often gone with my patients
to therapeutical camps

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or therapeutical excursions.

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They need other people
they can trust, or cooperate with,

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to do different things in life together.

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Some of these people need rehabilitation.

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So, different methods
that will help them to --

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Or --

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to recreate some abilities
they had before,

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in order that they come back to work,

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or come back to [college] or to school.

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But in many cases what they need
is help in finding [a job].

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Or in coming back to work.

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These people are in many areas
more vulnerable,

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or [sensitive]
than it is usually [the case].

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But without [a job] --

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I think that many of you
have or will have jobs.

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And work is one
of the most important things

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in finding,
or in building a sense of life.

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Or the sense that "I am a useful person."

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That I can give other people

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something that is valuable.

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And therefore, we also try
to make the step between --

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Or help these people to make the step

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between their [current] situation

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and [working] in the open market.

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And this way,

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or [with] this program,
we try to help them.

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This program [is] "Treatment, Living
and Working in the Community."

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I would say that the most --

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visual, or the best example
of this program

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is the Pan Cogito Hotel project.

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Pan Cogito Hotel is a hotel,

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in Dębniki, in Cracow.

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Bałuckiego 6 -- street.

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And this hotel is run

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mostly by people
that survived a mental crisis,

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or a mental disorder.

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23 or 24 people with mental disorders
are working there.

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And for many of them,

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it is the best workplace
they've had in their lives.

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It's a place [where] they don't need
to hide with their problems.

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They don't need to --

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let's say, to be afraid
that their problems --

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will be mistreated,

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or will be the cause
of some kind of mistreatment.

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They can talk with other people
who are working there,

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because they have similar experiences,
or similar problems.

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And they trust or understand
these people better.

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They work with people,

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and they say that this work with people

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is very important to them,

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because they [get]

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a lot of positive or warm feedback

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from the guests of this hotel
or the restaurant.

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And it is not only a workplace,

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but it is also an educational place.

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A place which many people
from all over Poland are coming to,

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and observing that it is possible

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[for] people with severe mental illnesses,

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with severe mental disorders,

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[to] cooperate and build
a project that is successful.

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And these visits [are]
from all over Poland.

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But also, [the fact that]
this idea is spreading

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not only in Poland, but also in Europe,

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is also a kind of example for people
from other cities, other places,

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that they can create similar places.

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Places that will be safe, nice,

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and, I would say, good places to work in

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and to, let's say, be together
with other people,

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with other members of society,

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Yeah, with other people, to be together.

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And this aspect that --

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These people start to feel
that they are not [different],

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but they are similar

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and they are together with other people.

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It is, I think, one of the most important
effects of the therapy

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we would like to achieve.

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Thank you very much for your attention.

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(Applause)