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21
January
2025
Mental health in search of the social: History and epistemology of transnational and local psychiatric reforms (Portugal and Brazil)
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On January 21 and 22, at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (Site Descartes), this colloquium co-organized by the PsyGlocal team will include the presentation of a documentary made as part of the project and various moments of discussion.

PROGRAMME

Tuesday, January 21, 2025
ENS Lyon - Descartes site, Buisson building, room D8001

14h00 - 14h15 PSYGLOCAL:
The globalization of mental health and local responses to psychic suffering - Introduction and conference theme, by Tiago Pires Marques

14.15 - 16.00 Screening of the film
“Re-existing through transmutable lines”. Directed by Talbert Igor. Followed by discussion.

16.30 - 17.30
Lines of force in the Brazilian psychiatric reform, by Paulo Amarante (LAPS; Oswaldo Cruz Foundation)


Wednesday, January 22, 2025
ENS Lyon - Descartes site, Buisson building, room D8001

10:00 - 11:15
The metamorphoses of an emancipation: The Brazilian psychiatric reform and the case of the State of Bahia,
by Mônica Nunes and Maurice de Torrenté (ISC- Federal University of Bahia)

11:45 - 13:00
The horizon of community mental health and biosocialities in Portugal,
by Sílvia Portugal and Tiago Pires Marques (Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra)

14:00 - 15:15
The emergence of the “social” in the field of mental health: provision of care to vulnerable groups or the advent of a concept of “management” in post-1945 society?
by Emmanuel Delille (Marc Bloch Center)

15h30 - 16h45
Networking militants and 'working utopias': the counter-hegemonic role of the arts in psychiatric activism,
by Mattia Faustini (Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra)

16.45 - 17.30 Debate and conclusion: What is “social” in mental health?