Andrés Ríos

Andrés Ríos graduated as an anthropologist from the National University of Colombia; additionally, he is a magister in Anthropological Sciences from the UAM-I and a doctor in History from the College of Mexico. He is a T. C. researcher of the UNAM’s Institute of Historical Investigations, a member of the National Researchers System, and an associate editor of the magazine Estudios de Historia Moderna y Contemporánea de México.

Besides, he is a specialist in the history of psychiatry and the author of the books:

• Madness during the Mexican Revolution. The early years of the La Castañeda General Madhouse, 1910-1920. (Mexico, The College of Mexico, 2009);
• Memories of an abnormal madman. (Mexico, Random House Mondadori, 2010); How to prevent madness. Psychiatry and mental hygiene in Mexico, 1934-1950. (Mexico, in the press, IIH-UNAM).