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H-Madness has published DECOLMAD’s report on the Workshop “Shaping the global psyche: colonialism, transcultural psychiatry and global mental health”, organized by the “Decolonizing Madness” team, university of…

The Medical Anthropology Research Center (MARC) of the Rovira i Virgili University (URV) in Tarragona, Spain, hosted the presentation of the book ¿Somos sujetos cerebrales? Neurociencias, salud mental y sociedad…

Subhasree Biswas' research is about the relationship between women, madness, speech act, needlework and healing.

By Anjana Bala, LSE Fellow in Anthropology.

In this blog, Shilpi Rajpal talks to Sarah Pinto, Professor of Anthropology in the Tufts University about her new book The Doctor and Mrs. A: Ethics and Counter-Ethics in an Indian Dream Analysis.

DECOLMAD’s Ana Antic reports from an exhibition on the life and work of Francesc Tosquelles In the spring and summer 2022, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona (CCCB) is hosting a rich and informative exhibition…

This year marks the 70th anniversary of one of the most relevant milestones in the history of the worldwide anti-asylum struggle: the founding of the Museum of Images of the Unconscious. Learn about Nise da Silveira's…

The Decolonizing Madness Blog invites contributions and short essays on psychiatry, power, and culture.

In case you are wondering what our DECOLMAD group is up to these days, we have compiled a list of the activities, events and talks that we have been engaging in.

Interview about their collaborative experience in training health practitioners in Egypt on medical anthropology.

A new project at UCPH.

The DECOLMAD Project introduces a new series entitled “Psychiatry, Arts and Mental Health”

The DECOLMAD blog introduces a new section on archives.

Decolonising the Mind: Birth of the Global Mental Health Movement in India, 1920 - 1980s I am primarily a social historian of psychiatry and I have taught legal history, social history and gender studies along with the…

In January, DECOLMAD was joined by two exceptional researchers – Shilpi Rajpal and Gabriel Abarca-Brown. In the next two blogs, we will introduce their research profiles, projects and achievements.

International conference on new interdisciplinary perspectives in transcultural psychiatry, together with another ERC StG project Governing Madness (MadAf).

DECOLMAD’s Lamia Moghnieh interviews psychologist Robert Beshara.

DECOLMAD’s Lamia Moghnieh talks to Dr Saiba Varma, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, about her new book.

Ana Antic In their recent article on decolonising the psychiatric curriculum, a group of authors from the Critical Psychiatry Network argued that ‘any effort to decolonise our discipline must start from an acknowledgmen…

On May 28th 2021, the interdisciplinary workshop on “Culture and the Mind” was held in a hybrid form at the Institute for English, Germanic and Romance studies at the University of Copenhagen. It was convened by Ana…

DECOLMAD is very excited to host a blog piece by Dr Harry Yi-Jui Wu, Associate Professor in the Cross College Elite Program and Department of Medical Humanities and Social Medicine at National Cheng-Kung University in…

Within the framework of two ERC Starting Grants (‘Decolonizing Madness’, PI Ana Antic, University of Copenhagen, and ‘Governing Madness’, PI Romain Tiquet, CNRS, Marseille), a two-day conference will be organized at the…

In this blog post, we introduce Dr Lamia Moghnieh, who will be joining the DECOLMAD project in May 2021 as a post-doctoral fellow. Lamia is an anthropologist and a mental health practitioner (MSW, MA in Psychology)…

In this blog post, it is our great pleasure to host Jonathan Sadowsky, Theodore J. Castele Professor of the History of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, who introduces his new book The Empire of Depression: A…

The Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies (ENGEROM), University of Copenhagen (UCPH), invites applications for a 30-month post-doctoral researcher position in the history of colonial and post-colonial…