La historia de la locura desde la perspectiva del paciente: balance y perspectivas historiográficas

[EN] Starting from Roy Porter’s proposal on the history of medicine from the patient’s point of view, formulated forty years ago, this article aims to analyze the development of this historiographical approach applied to the narratives of people subjected to psychiatric treatment. This subject of st...

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Autores: Huertas García-Alejo, Rafael, Campos Marín, Ricardo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/414276
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/414276
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:History of psychiatry
Historiography
Mad studies
Gender and madness
Mental health activism
Historia de la psiquiatría
Historiografía
Estudios locos
Género y locura
Activismo en salud mental
Psychiatry
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Sumario:[EN] Starting from Roy Porter’s proposal on the history of medicine from the patient’s point of view, formulated forty years ago, this article aims to analyze the development of this historiographical approach applied to the narratives of people subjected to psychiatric treatment. This subject of study has been intensively cultivated in recent decades, incorporating new questions, previously little-explored sources, and original interpretive resources, compared to traditional psychiatric history. After a conceptual clarification exercise regarding these aspects and the very notion of madness, attention is given to the most recent contributions on the experience of hospitalization, studies on women and madness, and mental health activism from a historical perspective. It is concluded that today, in this “history from below,” various academic, intellectual, and cultural traditions converge, requiring interdisciplinary dialogues and transversal methodologies that both enrich and problematize studies on madness.