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Estudios de historia moderna y contemporánea de México
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RIOS MOLINA, Andrés. Un mesías, ladrón y paranoico en el Manicomio La Castañeda. A propósito de la importancia historiográfica de los locos. Estud. hist. mod. contemp. Mex [online]. 2009, n.37, pp.71-96. ISSN 0185-2620.
This article analyzes the case of Alberto Nicolat Talocín: a paranoic that was hospitalized several times in the lunatic asylum La Castañeda. On the basis of their autobiographies and the thesis written by doctor Gregorio Oneto Barenque, the author reconstruct the way "madmen" related to therapeutic institutions and psychiatric language. They also discuss the role of the mentally ill and the cultural context of the construction of scientific knowledge of psychopathies.
Palavras-chave : paranoia; lunatic asylum; mental illness; messiah; psychiatry; history of health.