PROGRAMME.
Day 1. Monday, June 26th
[9:00 - 9:30] Reception and breakfast
[9:30 - 9:40] Introduction to the Workshop
[9:40 - 10:10] Inaugural presentation
Livia Velpry (Cermes3, Université Paris 8 Saint-Denis).
[10:10 - 11:40] Conference
Anne Lovell (Cermes3, Université Paris Descartes) | Global mental health gateways: global and local tensions around the new metrics.
Discussant: China Mills (University of Sheffield).
[11:40 - 12:00] Coffee Break
[12:00 - 13:00] Historical mental health issues in Latin American countries
Luis Torres (Cermes3, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) | Moral treatment in the madhouse of Santiago, Chile: the limits of the medicalization process (1852-1891).
Marcelo Valenzuela (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona) | Homosexuality and sodomy in Chile: Theories of medical and penal knowledge (1885-1931).
Chair: Claudio Maino (Cermes3, Université Paris Descartes).
[13:00 - 14:30] Lunch Break
[14:30 - 16:00] Challenges for Mental Health Policy in Latin America
Karla Ramírez, Calligarich Khalil, David Rujana Acosta and Carlos Parales Quenza (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) | Mental Health Policy in Colombia: History and implementation failures.
Manuel Capella & Sushrut Jadhav (University College London) | Challenges for public mental health in Ecuador: A preliminary ethnographic analysis.
Gesa Solveig Duden (University of Osnabruck) & Lucienne Martins-Borges (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina) | Intercultural psychotherapy with migrants and refugees: An experience from Brazil.
Chair: Nohra Vera (King’s College London).
[16:00 - 16:15] Coffee Break
[16:15 - 17:45] From diagnosis to experience: Different voices, different approaches
Gina Donoso (Ghent University) | Subjective encounters with victims and survivors of political trauma in Ecuador. Reflexivity and countertransference in qualitative research.
Alejandro Castro (Universidad Alberto Hurtado) | Narrative study on people with a psychiatric Diagnosis in Santiago, Chile: The voices of madness.
Nicolás Morales (Univesitat Rovira i Virgili) | The psychiatric reform in Santiago, Chile (1968-): Notes on the political arena of mental health.
Chair: Sofía Bowen (King’s College London).
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[17:45] Drinks reception
Day 2. Tuesday, June 27th
[9:00 - 9:30] Reception and breakfast
[9:30 - 11:00] Conference
Clara Han (Johns Hopkins University) | Inheriting the dead: Children, kinship, and violence.
Discussant: Livia Velpry (Cermes3).
[11:00 - 11:30] Coffee Break
[11:30 - 13:00] Global tendencies, local realities: Global Mental Health and Latin American perspectives
Sebastián Fonseca (King’s College London) | A historical analysis of psychiatric research: Epistemology from Latin America.
Maria Castro (University of East London) & Steve Melluish (University of Leicester) | Cuban mental health and psychological practice in the context of debates around global mental health.
Chair: Cristian R. Montenegro (London School of Economics).
[13:00 - 14:30] Lunch Break
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[14:30 - 16:00] Conference
Catherine Campbell (London School of Economics) | Locating Mental Health: Community mobilisation, agency and social change.
Discussant: Ursula Read (Cermes3).
[16:00 - 16:20] Coffee Break
[16:20 - 17:45] Collective discussion: Towards a Latin American perspective in Global Mental Health
Elaine Flores (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
Álvaro Jiménez (Cermes3, Université Paris Descartes)
Felipe Szabzon (Lisbon School of Public Health/EHESS)
Coordinator: Gabriel Abarca (King’s College London)
[17:45 - 18:00] Concluding Remarks
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