Biography

Cláudia Nogueira is a researcher at the Center for Social Studies. She has a PhD in Sociology, with the thesis "Beyond Silences. Mental suffering, integrality and (im)possibilities of an ecology of care". Her current research interests are related to the themes of Mental Suffering, Paradigm of Comprehensiveness, Ecology of Care, Public Health Policies, Community Mental Health Teams, Epistemological Diversity in Health and Spirituality-Health. She participated in a pioneering study on psychiatric deinstitutionalization in Portugal, having co-authored "Mental Illness, Institutions and Families. The challenges of deinstitutionalization in Portugal", with Pedro Hespanha et al. (Almedina, 2012).