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José García González (Vega del Rey, Lena, c. 28 March 1938 - 23 March 2020), was an spanish psychiatrist and neurologist known for having obtained political atributions in the Council of Government of the Principality of Asturias, along with Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)

Biography
García González got a degree in Medical Sciences in the University of Granada, with a tesis named Historia social de la psiquiatría en España (Social history of psychiatry in Spain), which was expanded into Germany and Switzerland, where he later on worked as psychiatrist. García González dedicated most of his professional career to the Social Psychiatry, and wrote many publications about it.

He also participated actively at the manifestations for psychiatric transformation in the 1970s, on the Psychiatric hospital of Oviedo, and on the Psychiatric Sanatory of Conxo, in Santiago de Compostela, where he obtained progression in many areas. He also colaborated with the creation of the MIR System of Specialization, established in the 1970s.

García González was a member of the experts commision which elaboured an inform for the ministerial comision for the psychiatric reform, and obtained the title of "President of the Spanish Association of Neuropsychiatry", which ran from 1983 to 1986. He was also responsible for the establishment of the Mental Service of the Asturian General Hospital

Political Activity
Thanks to the pre-autonomic constitution of the Principality of Asturias presided by Rafael Fernández Álvarez in the year 1982, García González was designated Regional director of mental health, and revalidated his position in 1983, as President of the Principality of Asturias Pedro de Silva.

García González stayed in office until 1987. His labour in this responsability settled the basis and organization for the Psychiatric reform in the principality. This was considered by the World Health Organization, after he chose it as a collaborative center for that specialization

Time after, between 1991 and 1995, García González, was elected Counselor of Sanity and Social Services, during the presidencies of Juan Luis Rodríguez-Vigil (1991-93) and Antonio Trevín (1993-95). Later on, in 1999, after Vicente Álvarez Areces was elected president of the principality, he became Counselor of Social business, a position he held until 2003.

García González died on 23 March 2020 at age 81/2