Adalberto Barreto, MD, PhD

Dr Barreto is a professor of community health in the faculty of medicine of the Federal University of Ceará in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. He was trained first in theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, Italy, and the Catholic University in Lyon, France, followed by a doctorate in anthropology at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, France. After his medical training in Brazil, Dr Barreto did a second doctorate in psychiatry at the René Descartes University “Paris V,” in Paris, France. He has trained tens of thousands of workers with his model of integrative community therapy (ICT) in Brazil and around the world. Dr Barreto is president of the Brazilian Association of Social Psychiatry (BASP) and the Brazilian Association of Community Therapy (BACT) and the author or coauthor of many articles, chapters, and books in Portuguese, French, and English. His major work in English is Integrative Community Therapy: Step by Step (2019).