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The ethics and politics of psychiatric deinstitutionalisation in South America.

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Bloco Tá Pirando, Pirado, Pirou! carnival parade with many people in blue t-shirts playing drums

From Trieste to Rio: Marco Cavallo and the Afterlives of Deinstitutionalisation

What does psychiatric deinstitutionalisation look like when approached through samba rehearsals and the smell of rain-soaked bodies returning to a psychiatric hospital after a parade?

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Two people, hand-in-hand, during Rio carnival from a parade that brings together residents, mental health users and professionals and anti-asylum activists

Where carnival becomes care

Where Carnival Becomes Care, a photograph by Delia Da Mosto, has won first prize in the “Research in Action” Photography Competition at KCL

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Piazza Unitá d'Italia, Triest

Trieste as Symbol and Place: Reflections on the 'In and Out of the Asylum' Workshop

What does it mean to rethink psychiatric reform? Reflections on the In & Out of the Asylum: Psychiatric Critiques & Reforms in Historical Perspective

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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.