The rise of the Psychiatric Counter-Reform in Brazil

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4480107
AutoresRossano Cabral Lima (0000-0002-8583-4535, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume29
Fascículo1
Data de publicação2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPhysis Revista de Saúde Coletiva (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0103-7331 • E-ISSN: 1809-4481
EditoraFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0103-73312019290101
OpenAlexW2938544888
SCIELO_PIDS0103-73312019000100100
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas4

been a witness and agent of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform process (RPB), through the publication of theoretical articles and qualitative research in the psychosocial care network, among others.As a recent example, at the end of 2014, as part of the celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the Postgraduate Programme in Collective Health, the journal launched a special thematic issue on the Brazilian Mental Health and Psychiatry scenario -including an interview with Jurandir Freire Costa, by Benilton Bezerra (BEZERRA JR.; COSTA, 2014), both relevant figures of the RPB trajectory and IMS professors, as well as Birman (all retired now).Born as a Mental Health Worker's Movement in the late 1970s, and expanded as the Anti-Manicomial Movement in the second half of the 1980s, the Psychiatric Reform gradually ceased to refer only to a social movement, to become the official policy of the Brazilian state.From 1991, through governments of different political and ideological shades, the Mental Health Coordination of the Ministry of Health was successively occupied by RPB members.However, in tune with the changes in the correlation of forces in Brazilian political life, the picture began to change at the end of 2015.It is from this time the editorial by Kenneth Camargo Jr, "Mental Health, Citizenship and Scientific Field", on the crisis that emerged with the appointment of a coordinator of Mental Health, Alcohol and other Drugs with a professional background linked to the manicomial model (CAMARGO JR, 2015

Political science · Psychiatry · Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies · Medicine · Mental Health Treatment and Access · Psychology · Schizophrenia research and treatment