Current research interests

Historical Sociology of Psychiatry and Psychotherapies; medicalization of life; ethics in mental health care; psychiatric epidiomology; scientific and lay knowledge on suffering; activism in Mental Health

Research Projects

2022-01-01 - 2024-12-31 - "PSYGLOCAL - Psychic Suffering and Human Rights. Epistemologies of Mental Health, Public Policies, and Advocacy in Psychiatry (Lisboa, Portugal; e Salvador, Brasil)", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia.

2022-01-01 - 2024-12-31 - "REMEMBER - Vivências de Pessoas Idosas LGBTQIA+ no Portugal Democrático", coordinated by Ana Cristina Santos, sponsored by FCT.

2021-01-01 - 2022-04-30 - "Ouvir Vozes", coordinated by Mário Montenegro, sponsored by DGARTES.

2019 - 2025 - "Psychic Suffering and the Social Question: From Revolution to Collaborative Militancy (Portugal and Bahia, Brazil, 1970s - 2010s)", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia.

2014-02-01 - 2019-01-31 - "The Fabric of Mental Health: Medical Power, Secularization, and the Construction of a Psychotherapeutic Field (Portugal, 1940s-2000s)", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia.

2008-01-01 - 2011-12-31 - "Philosophy, History and Sociology of Mental Illness (PHS2M)", coordinated by Pierre-Henri Castel, sponsored by Association Nationale de Recherches (France).

2007-09-01 - 2010-10-31 - "Portuguese Catholics in 20th century politics - the reflection and intervention of two generations: António Lino Neto and Francisco Lino Neto", coordinated by António Matos Ferreira, sponsored by Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT - Portugal).

1999 - 2000 - "Regime Change and Ministerial Recruitment in Portugal (1850-2000)", coordinated by Pedro Tavares de Almeida, sponsored by Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT - Portugal).

1998 - 2000 - "Dictionary of Parliamentary Representatives in Portugal, 1884-1910", coordinated by Maria Filomena Mónica, sponsored by Assembleia da República (Parliament, Portugal).

Networks

AILP -International Association of Human and Social Sciences in Portuguese Language

Associação Portuguesa de História Económica e Social

Association DEV Revue d'Histoire des Sciences Humaines

Association Française d?histoire Religieuse Contemporaine

GERN International Network Neurosciences and the Law, coordinated by René Lévy, Peter Becker and Reinhard Kreissl. CESDIP/ CNRS; Un. Lyon II; University of Vienna; European University Institute.

LUCI - L'UNIVERSITE COOPERATIVE INTERNATIONALE

Recherche Avec. Réseau d'échange et de partage interdisciplinaire francophone

ReliMM. A Religião nas Múltiplas Modernidades. Rede de Investigadores
    Net Partnership:
              - Centro de Estudos em religiões e Culturas, Universidade Católica Portuguesa
              - Faculdade de Ciências Sociais Humanas, Universidade do Porto