The trend toward neoinstitutionalization and religious discourse

Elements of Analysis for Psychiatric Reform

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3089183
AutoresLuisa Motta Corrêa (0000-0001-6350-5979, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro), Rossano Cabral Lima (0000-0002-8583-4535, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
Ano2024
Volume33
Fascículo4
Data de publicação2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSaúde e Sociedade (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0104-1290 • E-ISSN: 1984-0470
EditoraFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0104-12902024230288en
OpenAlexW4406608384
SCIELO_PIDS0104-12902024000400400
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas10

Based on the experience of Italian democratic psychiatry, deinstitutionalization became the main axis of the Brazilian psychiatric reform policies. However, the tendency to isolate mental health users persists, leading to recurrent hospitalizations or neo-institutionalization. In the absence of the old asylums, new circuits for the confinement of madness have been created, with therapeutic communities as a paradigmatic example. Considering that the institution is the set of sayings, practices, and moralities that objectify users, translating the dominant rationality, it is necessary to show the ideology of the new asylum strongholds to understand the function they are fulfilling in today's society. Therefore, this study seeks to analyze, by a narrative bibliographical review, what these institutions represent, how they operate, and what questions they pose to the psychosocial care network - especially the in the Centro de Atenção Psicossocial (CAPS - Psychosocial Care Center). In discussing the case of Centro Vita and the therapeutic communities, which express a similar logic, we found that if, on the one hand, they are places destined for the death of unproductive people, on the other hand, they embody moralities and mentalities crossed by religious discourse, responding to subjective and existential needs that must be urgently addressed in view of the growing social disaffiliation that plagues mental health users and their families

Discourse analysis · Linguistics · Political science · Psychiatry · Sociology · Mental Health Treatment and Access · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies