Here are the latest updates from the Transitions Project.
The World Health Organization has released a new practical guide, Supporting the transition to community-based mental health and social care: practical guide to the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric hospitals.
Transitions is pleased to share the Call for Papers for Modelling Reform: Psychiatric Reform Across Histories, Contexts, and Circulations, an international workshop taking place at Sapienza University of Rome on 20–21 May 2027.
Marking the first year of Transitions, the symposium brought together emerging research on the histories, movements and circulation of psychiatric deinstitutionalisation across Latin America.
Exploring the debates, innovations and visions for transformation developed in Brazil and Chile in response to movements for reform in the USA and Western Europe in the second half of the 20th century.