Here are the latest updates from the Transitions Project.
On 11 November 2026, Felipe Szabzon, a postdoctoral researcher at IMS-UERJ and researcher on the project Transitions: The Ethics and Politics of Psychiatric Deinstitutionalisation in South America, will present preliminary findings from his research on the history of psychiatric care in Brazil.
The photographs on display are part of the Transitions project, a study of psychiatric deinstitutionalisation in Brazil and Chile carried out across historical ethnographic and transnational research.
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.
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.