Athena Peglidou, social anthropologist and filmmaker, is currently adjunct member of the teaching stuff of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts at the Ionian University in Corfu. She holds a D.E.A. in Social Anthropology (E.Η.Ε.S.S., Paris), a D.E.A. in Anthropological Cinema and Documentary (Paris X-Nanterre) and a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology (E.H.E.S.S., Paris). Her academic interests focus on the use of visual technologies in ethnographic fieldwork and on the interrelation of psychic suffering, politics and global/local medical culture. Her ethnographic research initially involved topics as the social poetics of normality and gender through cases of cleaning compulsion and depression among Greek women, the symbolic aspects of psychotropic drugs and therapeutic pluralism in mental illness. Later, she has worked in Greek-Albanian borders exploring mobility and locality on the borderline. Her more recent postdoctoral research has concerned gift and money-giving practices as aspects of Greek medical moral economy and social disparities in psychosis and its relationship with social suffering and personhood. She is currently working on the production of depression as “national disease” in the light of the ongoing economic crisis.