Dr. Emilio Mira y López

Last Newsletter 2008
  • Month of July

    DONATION OF DOCUMENTS OF DR. MIRA Y LOPEZ TO THE URIACH FOUNDATION

                Montserrat Mira, daughter of Dr. Mira y Lopez, with residence in Barcelona, has recently donated  to the Documentation Centre of the prestigious Uriach Foundation 1838 (year of the establishment of the Uriach Pharmaceutical Company) a selection of documents relating to Dr. Mira y Lopez: papers and books by or about the author, personal documents, etc. that will be added to the Centre’s bibliographic catalogue where there already exist 70.000 registers available on line, among which, numerous writings by Dr. Mira prior to the beginning of the Civil War.

                 The Uriach Documentation Centre houses a library specializing in the History of the Health Sciences, which is considered to be the most important Spanish private Foundation on the subject. The Centre’s Director, Dr. Jose Danon, keeps in close touch with various Spanish universities at whose disposal he has placed this rich common property. You can visit and download topics of your interest in http://www.fu1838.org


     

    Month of February

    Professors Annette Mulbeerger and Ana Maria Jaco-Vilela of   Barcelona's Autonomous University have recently published in Vol.27, pp.309-322 of the DYNAMIS magazine a well-documented and substantive article entitled "Better to die standing than to live on one's knees: Emilio Mira y Lopez and the Social Revolution". The article deals for the first time with Mira y Lopez's evolution of his political ideas, greatly influenced by his participation in the Spanish Civil War. It is an essay of great depth and of superior quality which strongly recommends the reading of the article

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Last Newsletter 2007
  • Month of September.
     

    THE MKP ON LINE

    Published by Vetor of Sao Paulo

    The Publishing House Vetor Psychopedagogics of Sao Paulo, who, in 2002 published the Spanish edition of the Book by Alice Galland de Mira on the MKP and runs courses on its administration and interpretation, has just launched the softwareonline .

    The user of the online scoring can in this way complete the scoring of the deviations without visual control of the examinee, (which normally takes an hour)in 15 minutes. The software is easily installed and does not require great computer literacy since it comes accompaniedby a manual of instructions for its installation.

    Another advantage of using the software is that it allows the professional using it to acquire a considerable database given that the scored protocols remain at hand.

    Further information about the MKP software can be obtained in the homepage of the publishing house www.vetoreditora.com.br

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Last Newsletter 2007
  • Month of September.
     

    THE MKP ON LINE

    Published by Vetor of Sao Paulo

    The Publishing House Vetor Psychopedagogics of Sao Paulo, who, in 2002 published the Spanish edition of the Book by Alice Galland de Mira on the MKP and runs courses on its administration and interpretation, has just launched the softwareonline .

    The user of the online scoring can in this way complete the scoring of the deviations without visual control of the examinee, (which normally takes an hour)in 15 minutes. The software is easily installed and does not require great computer literacy since it comes accompaniedby a manual of instructions for its installation.

    Another advantage of using the software is that it allows the professional using it to acquire a considerable database given that the scored protocols remain at hand.

    Further information about the MKP software can be obtained in the homepage of the publishing house www.vetoreditora.com.br

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  • 100 Aniversary of the Academy of Medical Sciences's Magazine of Catalunya and Baleares.

    "Anales de Medicina" the publication of the Academy of
    Medical Sciences and Health, of Catalunya and Baleares edited in Catalan, has included into his number of celebration of its 100th anniversary, (volume 90, Jan-Feb-March 2007), an extensive article  (pages 41-45) signed by Dr Elena Guardiola  and Dr. Joseph Eladi Banos, entitled "Eponimia Medica Catalana, el test de Mira" ,  presenting an extensive biography of Dr Mira y Lopez, a description of his well known PMK Test, and a section dedicated to "other  contributions   of Emilio Mira”.
  • Department of Psychology of the University of Barcelona:
    IV Emilio Mira y Lopez Award to Linguistic Superior Proficiency


    On April 24th, The Commission on Linguistic Dynamics of the
    Department of Psychology, and the Linguistic Services of the University of Barcelona, gave the IV Emilio Mira y Lopez award to individual and collective writings in Catalan by the students of the Department of Psychology, from the last quarter of the year 2006 and the first  semester of 2007, on subjects of Psychological content, for their linguistic proficiency. The award values the use of the Catalan
    Language, the quality of the specialty's terminology, and the coherence
    and structure of the test.

Last Newsletter 2005
  • Book launch.

    On January 13th, the Department of Sport of the Catalan Government launched the book by Professors Conrad Vilanou and Xavier Laudo entitled Emilio Mira and the origins of sport psychology. The launch took place in the Main Chamber of the coach yards of Palau Robert and becomes the 2nd volume in the recently published series Texts in Culture and Sport. Following on the opening remarks by Sr. Rafael Niubo, General Secretary of Sport, the speakers were the book's authors, the Chair of Sport Psychology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Sr. Jaume Cruz, and Sra. Montserrat Mira, daughter of Dr. Mira..
  • Opening of the Graduate Course of Graphopsychology
    (2004-2005)

    Sra. Montserrat Mira was also the guest of honor and main speaker, on January 21st, at the inaugural session of the course offered by the Autonomous University of Barcelona, on account of the course this year, honoring Dr. Mira y Lopez. After her speech, Professor Dr. Francisco Viñals Carrera, Coordinator of the course, presented her with the Diploma offered by the Spanish Association of Consulting Graphoanalysts, in which Dr. Mira is posthumously declared Honorary Member of the Association because of his valuable contribution to the progress of handwriting psychology.
  • Launch of the PMK-RD

    A week later, on January 28th, the Catalan Society of Psychologists was the site for the presentation of the new digital version of Dr. Mira's Myokinetic Psychodiagnostic Test (PMK-RD). On this occasion the speakers were the President of the Society Dr. Jaime Almenara, and the authors of the scoring methodology Drs. J. M. Tous and Albert Viade, both lecturers in the School of Psychology of the University of Barcelona, in charge of the Mira y Lopez Laboratory of the Personality, Evaluation and Treatment Division of the School. The last speaker was Dr. Bardella, President of Vetor Publishers in Sao Paulo, Brazil, who holds the exclusivity of the test in that country. Dr. Bardella had traveled to Barcelona with the specific purpose of concretizing with the above authors how best to implement the new methodology. During his brief intervention Dr.Bardella highlighted the well spread use of the test in Brazil and in particular its compulsory nature for applicants for driving licences.

    After a simplified theoretical explanation of the methodology, a demonstration of the new digital version of the PMK-RD was offered to the audience so that they could appreciate the greater speed of scoring and interpretation of results now available. This was followed by a Question and Answer period by the psychologists in the audience, who jotted down the web page of Dr,. Mira. The President of the Society, Dr. Almenara, closed the act and invited the audience to share light refreshments.

  • Rumanian Edition of the Handbook of Forensic Psychology

    The book, published in Barcelona in 1932 by Salvat Publishers, has been recently edited in Bucharest by Oscar Print, in the Rumanian language. This translation by psychologist Ileana Trandafir, joins the existing translations of the book in Portuguese, French and Italian. The book has become a classic in the literature in the field, not only because of the early date of publication and the subsequent reprintings of it in Buenos Aires by The Ateneo Publishers but because of its conceptualization, which gives it a timeless and universal perspective, very useful to law students and future judges.
  • Books on line by Dr. Mira y Lopez in Psychiatry.com

    To the complete list of books by this author which appears in the book section of the above web have now been electronically added to www.onlinepsiquiatria.com, Contemporary Psychological Problems, Psychoanalytical Doctrines and The Sick Mind. The books have been scanned in PDF, so that prospective readers can either down load or print them, thus offering access to the original version, which is presently unobtainable through any other medium.
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