The production of the psychiatric subject in the urban peripheries of Latin America: Between standardized psychiatric instruments, global health, and collective health.

• Grant number: 24/22021-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: April 01, 2025
• End date: September 30, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Social Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Silvio Yasui
• Grantee: Daniela Ravelli Cabrini
• Supervisor: Abril Saldana Tejeda
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL-ASSIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Assis. Assis , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidad De Guanajuato, Mexico
• Associated to the scholarship: 22/16423-7 - Between Local Idioms of Distress and standardized psychiatric instruments: The mental suffering of people residing on the outskirts of Sapopemba, east zone of São Paulo., BP.DR

Abstract

This internship project abroad, linked to the ongoing PhD, explores the interactions between standardized psychiatric epidemiological tools, such as the WHO CIDI 5.0, and local experiences of mental distress in urban peripheries, with a focus on collective health and critical epistemologies from Latin America. It analyzes the trajectory of the WHO CIDI 5.0, highlighting cultural tensions to investigate how these tools influence governmentality, mental health care, and policies in the Global South. The study addresses how social determinants such as inequality, race, and class shape suffering experiences, connecting these factors with discussions of biopolitics and subjectivation. In international collaboration in Mexico, the project proposes a dialogue between Latin American critical epistemologies and global mental health debates, aiming to rethink the cultural translation of diagnostic instruments and their ethical and methodological implications. Objectives include mapping the practices and discourses of scientists developing the WHO CIDI 5.0 in Brazil while simultaneously exploring how residents of urban peripheries express and articulate their mental suffering. The project proposes a critique of the production and subjectivation of hegemonic psychiatric epidemiology, unveiling the impacts of its universalization on the ways of life and discursive practices that shape behaviors in the peripheral zones of global Latin American cities.