Latin American Mad Studies: Conceptual Frameworks and Research Agenda

Abstract This article analyzes the emergence of Mad Studies as an investigative tradition that proposes critical theories and alternative methodologies in production knowledge from people who have been labeled with psychiatric diagnoses. For Studies, meanings around Madness express relationship forces forms oppression constitute field mental health, therefore, they emphasize political nature research is developed this sustain a questioning claim objectivity neutrality biomedical model. In framework, through review academic literature netnography method, growing role communities received health care Latin America to their narratives public sphere described, positioning themselves agents actors. Around these new grammars, American are constituted perspective towards configuration other ways inhabiting madness articulating struggles for social emancipation contemporary regional scenario.