In the context of the XII Portuguese Congress of Sociology that will take place from April 4 to 7 in Coimbra, a communication by S. Portugal & T. P. Marques will be presented on April 5th, at 9 a.m.: "Psychic suffering, activism and biosocialities: a case study". This paper is part of the work done in the context of a research project - PSYGLOCAL - Psychic suffering and human rights: mental health epistemologies, policies and militancy in psychiatry (Lisbon, Portugal and Salvador, Brazil, c. 1950 - c. 2020) (FCT Funding. Ref: PTDC/FER-HFC/3810/2021) - which discusses the relationships between different mental health epistemologies and concepts of human rights. In this sense, it analyzes scientific and ethical paradigms, their reflection in health policies, and how different mental health epistemologies and public health policies produce health policies produce different forms of activism and are also affected by them. In this paper, we present the results of fieldwork carried out with ADEB (Association of Support for Depressive and Bipolar Patients), discussing "embodied epistemologies" of mental health and human rights vocabularies. Drawing on a collaborative and qualitative methodology, a socio-historical analysis is conducted, using documentary research, individual and interviews, and direct observation.
