Ser infamiliar no Brasil contemporâneo As políticas governamentais para a saúde mental entre 2010 e 2020

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to circumscribe the practices and discourses that supported governmental mental health policies in Brazil during the first two decades of the 21st century. The hypothesis that is built is that madness and drug addiction always remain as unfamiliar, foreign to the rationalized composition of social space. And that the defense of the forms of care advocated by the Brazilian psychiatric reform movement is confused with the fight against the dehumanization of this unfamiliar, against the institutionalized violence of a patriarchal and slave society, which uses the asylum to punish and exclude as diverse forms of non-adequacy to the hegemonic model. In this sense, a Psychiatric Reform and the deinstitutionalization processes should not be seen as finished, but as an uninterrupted work, of resistance against this violence that is directed against the most diverse forms of otherness.