Pathologisation, Depathologisation and Mental Health

Raudelio Machín Suárez, is a psychologist and holds a doctorate from the University of Havana, Cuba. He currently serves as an Associate Professor and Director of the Master's program in Psychopathology and Mental Health at the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences at Andrés Bello University in Chile. He has published several books, including Integration in Psychotherapy: Birth and Death of a Myth (1998), Epistemological Causes of the Dominance of Positivism in Educational Research (2010), Cuban Political Imaginary (2011), Organicity of Youth Political Movements (2014), New Waves in Social Psychology (2021), and more than twenty articles in indexed scientific journals. 

Part 1: Theoretical and Historical Context.- 1. Psychopathology revisited. Keys for a cultural understanding of pathologisations/de-pathologisations and their relationship with conceptions of mental health.- 2. "Defend yourself from madness": stigmatisation of mental illness in mental hygiene literature in Latin America at the beginning of the 20th century (1920-1960)".- 3. Approach to the aesthetic ways of the Pathos.- 4. The limits of the enunciation on the subject and the Pathos in psychoanalysis: The case of Autisms.- 5. Pathos and networks: notes for study on a circular relationship.- Part 2: Case Studies in Latin America.- 6. Care: following the micropolitics of pathologisation and depathologisation of children in Chilean schools.- 7. Pathologisation and depathologisation: a point of view based on psychoanalysis in Brazil.- 8. At risk or a risk: Latinas migrants in Europe, from vulnerability to social agency.- 9. Some guidelines to understand social discourses on pathologisation and well-being in public sports policies: a case study in Chile.- 10. Violence Saturation in the Lives of Black People in Latin America: The Pathology of Coloniality and What We Can Do About It.