Room: Sala Casino Azores
Data: 11 april 2025
Hour: 3:30pm

The concept of beauty, both in the philosophical and aesthetic sense, has evolved over the centuries. But one common denominator, which cuts across all eras, is the search for symmetry and, above all, balance.
When we talk about Aesthetic Medicine, the search for external balance (Beauty) is closely linked to strengthening the self, to psychic empowerment.

But fast-paced contemporaneity, external pressure (peers, social networks...) and changes in ‘conventional’ reference standards can lead to narcissistic disturbances that translate, for example, into weaknesses in self-esteem and self-perception disorders such as body dysmorphia.

In this context, the ‘aesthetic’ doctor is once again consigned to a holistic reality in which he is obliged to combine science and art. Art in the strict sense, as if he were sculpting the faces he works on, but also in the search for a balance between the psychic and the clothed skin. After a period in which exaggerated aesthetic procedures prevailed, he is ethically ‘obliged’ to defend the ideology of ‘less is more’.

In this talk, we'll have an in-depth and unconventional debate on these topical issues.

We look forward to seeing you!

Speakers
Jorge Freitas | Doctor
Teresa Fonseca | Psychologist
Isabel Albergaria | Art historian

Moderator:
Alexandra Pauthier | Doctor