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Las publicaciones periódicas producidas por personas con enfermedad mental en instituciones psiquiátricas (periódicos, revistas, boletines…) tienen casi dos siglos de historia. Sin embargo, a pesar de su innegable interés como fuente historiográfica y testimonio narrativo en primera persona, generalmente han sido desatendidas como objeto de interés y estudio, descuidándose igualmente su conservación. El objetivo del trabajo, tras la búsqueda, digitalización y revisión del mayor número de ejemplares en España entre los años 1966 y 1989, será presentar el reflejo de la transición y reforma asistencial psiquiátrica española en las publicaciones localizadas. La gran dificultad para encontrar un importante número de ellas, previsiblemente algunas ya irremediablemente perdidas, motivó el desarrollo en paralelo de un proyecto de catalogación y conservación de los fondos conocidos, que queda ahora abierto a la colaboración pública y accesible enwww.psiquifanzines.com. (AU)

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 significant number of them, foreseeably some of them are already lost forever, motivated the parallel 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. (AU)

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First-person narratives of suicidal behavior may provide novel insights into how individuals with lived experience of suicide understand and narrate their behavior. Our aim was to explore the narratives of young men hospitalized following nonfatal suicidal behavior (NFSB), in order to understand how young suicidal men construct and understand their actions. Data were collected via narrative interviews with 14 men (aged 18-34 years) admitted to hospital following an act of NFSB in Cape Town, South Africa. Narrative analysis was used to analyze the data. Two dominant narratives emerged in which participants drew on tropes of the "great escape" and "heroic resistance," performing elements of hegemonic masculinity in the way they narrated their experiences. Participants position themselves as rational heroic agents and present their suicidal behavior as goal-directed action to solve problems, assert control, and enact resistance. This dominant narrative is incongruent with the mainstream biomedical account of suicide as a symptom of psychopathology. The young men also articulated two counter-narratives, in which they deny responsibility for their actions and position themselves as defeated, overpowered, wary, and unheroic. The findings lend support to the idea that there is not only one narrative of young men's suicide, and that competing and contradictory narratives can be found even within a dominant hyper-masculine account of suicidal behavior. Gender-sensitive suicide prevention strategies should not assume that all men share a common understanding of suicide. Suicide can be enacted as both a performance of masculinity and as a resistance to hegemonic gender roles.

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