About

Citizenship and human rights of those living with psychiatric diagnoses constitute one of the last frontiers in the civil rights struggles that began in the 20th century. This meeting addresses the close interdependence between conceptions of human rights and models of knowledge of mental illness and mental health. Crossing global and local perspectives, focusing on counter-hegemonic epistemologies from Brazil and and from global activism, this meeting addresses the relations between experience, knowledges, struggles and human rights, and particularly, the role of activists in the emancipatory transformation of mental health. In a first moment, interventions in dialogue by Paulo Amarante and João Arriscado Nunes, followed by a debate. In a second moment, we will seek to deepen the debate through the presentation of three case studies, followed by a debate with the audience.

Workshop within the research project «PSYGLOCAL | Psychic Suffering and Human Rights: Mental Health Epistemologies, Public Policies, and Advocacy in Psychiatry (Lisbon, Portugal and Salvador, Brazil, 1950s - 2020s)», funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology


Programme

14h00 – 15h30:  Perspectives from the Global South under debate
Paulo Amarante (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz)
João Arriscado Nunes (CES/ FEUC – Un. de Coimbra)

16h00 – 17h30: Activism and Human Rights in Psychiatry
Leandra Brasil da Cruz (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz)
Mônica Nunes (Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia)
Tiago Pires Marques (CES)


Bio notes

Paulo Amarante (Fiocruz – Fundação Oswaldo Cruz)
Physician, Specialist in Psychiatry, Master in Social Medicine, PhD and Post Doctorate in Public Health. Senior Researcher at the National School of Public Health Sergio Arouca of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (ENSP/Fiocruz). He was a founder of the Laboratory of Studies and Research in Mental Health and Psychosocial Care (LAPS), of the mentioned foundation, of which he was coordinator and full researcher. He continues to be the Leader of the Research Group of the same name, of the National Research Council (CNPq). Founder and ex-President of the Brazilian Association of Mental Health (ABRASME), and President Honoris causa. He is Doctor Honoris causa of the Universidad Popular de Madres de Plaza de Mayo (Argentina); Honorary Professor of the Faculdad de Psicolog[ia de la Universidad Naional de Rosario (Argentina). Member of the Advisory Board of the Brazilian Platform on Drug Policy; Member of the Mental Health WG of the Brazilian Association of Collective Health (ABRASCO). Member of the Brazilian Executive Committee of the International School Franca & Franco Basaglia (WHO/Centro di Studi e Ricerche per la Salute Mentale/Trieste/Italy). Member of the Participation Committee of Copersamm (Conferenza Permanente per la Salute Mentale nel Mondo); Member of the International Institute for Psychiatric Drugs Withdrawal (IIPDW). He is the author of the books "Loucos pela vida: a trajetória da reforma psiquiátrica no Brasil", "Teoria e Crítica em Saúde Mental - Textos selecionados";, "Loucura e Transformação Social - autobiografia da Reforma Psiquiátrica no Brasil", among others.

João Arriscado Nunes (CES/ FEUC – Um de Coimbra)
João Arriscado Nunes is Full Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, co-coordinator of the PhD programme "Governance, Knowledge and Innovation"; and researcher at the Centre for Social Studies. Member of the coordination of the project ALICE - Strange Mirrors, Unexpected Lessons, coordinated by Boaventura de Sousa Santos and funded by the European Research Council (2011-2016). Visiting Researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), in Rio de Janeiro (2011-2012). Coordinated and participated in several national and international projects in the field of Social Studies of Science, Technology, Health and Environment. Co-organizer of Enteados de Galileu: A Semiperiferia no Sistema Mundial da Ciência; Reinventing Democracy: Grassroots Movements in Portugal; Objectos Impuros: Experiências em Estudos Sobre a Ciência.

Leandra Brasil da Cruz (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz)
Master in Social Psychology from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (2015), Leandra Brasil da Cruz is a lecturer and participates in the Coordination of the Specialization Course in Mental Health and Psychosocial Care of the National School of Public Health Sergio Arouca, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and the Research "Práticas de cuidado em saúde mental, crack, álcool e outras drogas na atenção básica em áreas de vulnerabilidade social: Desafios e impasses na gestão do cuidado” [Care practices in mental health, crack, alcohol and other drugs in primary care in areas of social vulnerability: Challenges and impasses in care management]. She works mainly in mental health and culture, psychosocial care, street population and psychiatric care.

Mônica Nunes (ISC – Universidade Federal da Bahia)
Psychiatrist, PhD in Anthropology, Professor of the Institute of Collective Health - UFBA, Coordinator of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Mental Health - NISAM, Member of the Coordinating Nucleus of the Commission on Social and Human Sciences in Health of the Brazilian Association on Collective Health - ABRASCO, currently Visiting Professor at the Centre for Social Studies - University of Coimbra. Author of over fifty articles in scientific journals and co-editor of the collections Legitimidades da Loucura. Sofrimento, luta, criatividade e pertença and Saúde Mental na Atenção Básica: Política e Cotidiano, among others.

Tiago Pires Marques (CES)
Senior Researcher FCT at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra since 2014. PhD in History at the European University Institute of Florence, with the dissertation Crime and the Fascist State (Routledge, 2016). He did his postdoctoral between 2008 and 2013, with the project "Science, religion and subjectivities", at the Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (Ecole Normale Supérieure - University of Paris 1), at Cermes3 (CNRS) and at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. He researches the history of mental health models in their relation to the medicalisation of life and the history of human rights. He is particularly interested in the knowledge, political proposals and alternatives to psychiatry produced by user movements in the field of psychiatry. He is the Principal Investigator of the project PSYGLOCAL - Psychic suffering and human rights: mental health epistemologies, policies and activism in psychiatry (Lisbon, Portugal and Salvador, Brazil, c. 1950 - c. 2020), funded by FCT.