Community and Psychiatric Reform in 1970’s Chile
Wed 25 Mar
|15a George Square
A talk by Dr. Cristian Montenegro, jointly hosted by the Global Mental Health Collaborative and Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society
Time & Location
25 Mar 2026, 09:30 – 11:00 GMT
15a George Square, 15a George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LD, UK
About the event
The Global Mental Health Collaborative and the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society would like to invite you to our upcoming event on March 25th at 09:30AM GMT: Community and Psychiatric Reform in 1970’s Chile
This is a talk by Dr. Cristian Montenegro, medical sociologist and Senior Lecturer in Critical Global Health at King’s College London, drawing on the Transitions project, a comparative study of psychiatric deinstitutionalisation in South America, to examine how “community” was imagined and operationalised in early reform efforts in Chile during the early 1970s. Based on archival and oral history research, it explores how community functioned as a key semantic and political device under the Popular Unity government: at once normative, organisational, and aspirational.
This event will be accessible both in-person (at the Practice Suite, 1st Floor, Chrystal Macmillan Building) and online. Please register for the event at the links below. Thank you!
In-person registration:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1982888958252?aff=oddtdtcreator
Online registration: