Mental Hygiene in Mexico: When the Post-Revolutionary Psychiatrists got out of the Insane Asylum

04/06/16

Contributed by Wade Pickren

April 11, 2016 12:00-1:00 (feel free to bring your lunch) 316 Gannett Center, Center for Faculty Excellence

Open to faculty, staff, and students.

Presented by Dr. Andres Rios Molina, Historian, National Autonomous University of Mexico

An expert on Mexican and Colombian psychiatry and mental health, Dr. Rios Molina's talk will explore how and why Mexican doctors began to search for treatment modalities outside of the traditional psychiatric hospital in the years following the end of the Mexican Revolution. Dr. Rios Molina will explore how cultural and clinical attitudes and ideas shaped this important effort to reform mental health treatments. Originally from Colombia, Dr. Rios Molina has published a number of books on Mexican psychiatric practices and patients.
For more information, see http://www.historicas.unam.mx/investigacion/riosmolina.html

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