This seminar aims to explore and discuss the different approaches and challenges related to peer support in mental health and the production of narratives about madness and gender in the press. The seminar aims to promote a deeper and more critical understanding of these areas by encouraging dialogue between professionals, scholars, and researchers on the subject. In addition, the seminar aims to encourage multidisciplinary approaches in reflecting on the production of narratives in and for global mental health.

Programme
14.00: Introduction by Tiago Pires Marques and Sílvia Portugal
14.15: “Echo in Silence and Health: The Production of Narratives on Madness and Gender in the Brazilian Press”, by Camila Fortes
14.45: Debate
15.15: “Narratives of recovery of people in psychosocial distress from peer support groups: the Community of Speech”, by Laís Chagas
16.15: Debate
16.30: Closing

Bio  notes
Camila Fortes | CNPq Researcher. Journalist and Master in Communication from the Federal University of Piauí (UFPI). PhD student in the Postgraduate Programme in Health Information and Communication at the Institute of Communication and Scientific and Technological Information in Health at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (ICICT/FIOCRUZ/RJ) on a Sandwich Doctorate/Doctoral Research at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. She is a member of the Communication, History and Health Studies Centre (NECHS/FIOCRUZ) and the Journalism and Communication Research Centre (NUJOC/UFPI). She is a member of the Youth Democracy Cohort (Europe)

Laís Chagas | Lecturer at the UFBA School of Nursing (Salvador-BA) with an emphasis on Mental Health, Health Education and Mental Health Work. She has a Master's degree in Community Health from the Institute of Collective Health (UFBA) and is a PhD candidate in the Postgraduate Programme in Collective Health (ISC-UFBA). She is currently doing a sandwich doctorate at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra. She is a member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mental Health Studies (ISC-UFBA).

Activity within the PSYGLOCAL project - Psychic suffering and human rights: epistemologies of mental health, politics and activism in psychiatry (Lisbon, Portugal and Salvador, Brazil, c. 1950 - c. 2020) [Ref. PTDC/FER-HFC/3810/2021]