Carlos Pérez Soto (born 6 October 1954) is a Chilean teacher of physics, lecturer at various universities and a social sciences researcher.

In 1984, he began teaching in higher education at the Institute of Arts and Social Sciences, which brought together intellectuals opposed to Pinochet's dictatorship and which, as of 1991, became known as ARCIS.

In the late 1980s, he already started to become widely known among students and scholars for his critical approach, his Marxist analysis and concrete policy proposals.

In this context, he received invitations to give lectures and conferences at numerous Chilean universities, so that the following years were characterized by an intense teaching activity.

In the late 1990s he also started giving some seminars and conferences outside Chile, at the Autonomous University of Barcelona on Hegel (1997) and Marxism (1999), as well as in Cali, at the Universidad del Valle on epistemology and dialectics (1998).

[15] Since 2013, he has decided to publish his books under a Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND (which allows you to copy and distribute the texts freely and at no costs, provided that the source is mentioned; the works can't be altered or used for commercial purposes).

They focus on a profound critique of the psychiatric practices, on the need for an de-medicalization and de-privatization of the symptoms, in order to bring the issues back to the actual field of their causation, origins and perpetuation: the social sphere.