Conversations about trust and hope

Conversations about Trust and Hope

Contemporary psychiatry in Curaçao

For decades, since its founding in 1936, Klínika Capriles has played a central role in psychiatric care on Curaçao.

Conversations about Trust and Hope documents the development of the clinic, its changing approaches to care, and the experiences of the people who lived and worked through these changes.

Based on extensive document research and interviews with patients, professionals and others connected to the clinic, the book traces how psychiatric care at Klínika Capriles evolved within a changing social and cultural context.

At its heart are two essential elements of every meaningful process of change: trust and hope.

They are fundamental to healing, to relationships, to leadership and to the courage to envision and create something better.