Transición y reforma psiquiátrica en España desde la perspectiva de las publicaciones periódicas producidas por y para los pacientes (1966-1989)

Abstract

: Periodical publications produced by people with mental illness in psychiatric institutions (newspapers, magazines, newsletters...) have almost two centuries of history. However, despite their undeniable interest as a historiographic source and first-person narrative testimony, they have generally been neglected as an object of interest and study, and their conservation has also been neglected. The objective of this paper, after the search, digitization, and review of the largest number of these kind of publications in Spain between 1966 and 1989, is to present the reflection that the transition and Spanish reform of psychiatric care had in the localized publications. The great difficulty in finding a signifi-cant number of them, foreseeably some of them are already lost forever, motivated the pa-rallel development of a project for the cataloguing and conservation of known collections, which is now open to public collaboration and accessible in www.psiquifanzines.com .