Author/s: “La Colifata, Salud Mental y Comunicación”

Date of production: (1991-2023)

Language/s: Spanish

Transmission details: 
A selection from the archives of LT 22 ‘Radio La Colifata’, an Argentinian radio station broadcasting directly from the garden of the José Borda Psychiatric Hospital in Buenos Aires.
The radio station’s name is derived from the word ‘colifato’, which in the capital’s dialect means ‘mad’, ‘crazy’.  Active since 1991, it is run by patients and former residents of a psychiatric institution. It began as an experiment in non-pharmacological therapy, to try out alternative forms of cure that would break through the walls of forced or chemical internment.