Report of the Human Rights Defender on the activities of the National Preventive Mechanism in Poland in 2013 He worked in the Psychiatric Hospital in Choroszcz at the Forensic Psychiatry Ward with reinforced security. He cooperated with the Psychological and Educational Centre No 6 in Warsaw. He is a co-organiser of a therapeutic group in the Psyche Clinic. Since 2011 he has been employed in Nowowiejski Hospital, initially in the Psychogeriatric Ward, and currently in the XIII Ward for Neurotic Disorders Treatment and in Neuroses Treatment Clinic. He has experience in diagnosing, consultancy, short- and long-term individual therapy as well as group therapy of therapeutic, interpersonal and training nature. He also completed a one-year ISTDP (Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy) seminar. He also runs his private practice. Katarzyna Kossobudzka – a  certified psychotherapist (European Psychotherapy Certificate and Psychotherapy Certificate of the Psychotherapy Science Section of the Polish Psychiatric Association). Since 2003, she has been employed at the Dolnośląskie Mental Health Centre. Since 2008, she has been a lecturer at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities. She used to work in the Mental Health Clinic and Welfare Care Centre for people with mental disorders, and she delivered trainings for nurses in the psychiatry specialisation. She has recently completed her 5-year specialisation in clinical psychology. 86