Madness and social change : autobiography of the Brazilian psychiatric reform / Paulo Amarante.
2022
RA790.7.B6 A42 2022eb
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Title
Madness and social change : autobiography of the Brazilian psychiatric reform / Paulo Amarante.
Author
Amarante, Paulo.
ISBN
9783031133756 (electronic bk.)
3031133757 (electronic bk.)
3031133749
9783031133749
3031133757 (electronic bk.)
3031133749
9783031133749
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022.
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 86 pages)
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10.1007/978-3-031-13375-6 doi
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RA790.7.B6 A42 2022eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.20981
Summary
In this book, the history of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform is told by one of its main protagonists. In the early 1980s, there were about 80 thousand people admitted to psychiatric hospitals in Brazil, with average lengths of hospital stay of approximately 25 years. The psychiatric reform process that took place in the country was responsible for closing more than 60 thousand beds in mental asylums, most of them characterized by conditions of violence and abandonment. The Brazilian Psychiatric Reform was inspired by the psychosocial care model introduced by psychiatrist Franco Basaglia in Italy and was marked by the broad participation of social movements, such as the anti-asylum movement and other human rights movements. This process gave rise to a model of mental health care based on open-door territorial mental health services, guided by the principle of treatment in liberty, in addition to other strategies of deinstitutionalization. More than a proposal to restructure or modernize the mental health care model, the objective of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform was the construction of a new social place for the diverse and singular subjective experience of madness. By intending to produce new imaginaries, new social representations and new meanings for these experiences, the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform led to one of the larger experiences of deinstitutionalization in the world and to the large scale implementation of a new model of mental health care in which the old asylum-centric paradigm was replaced by a new democratic psychosocial care model. .
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Dimensions of the Psychiatric Reform as a Complex Social Process
The "Industry of Madness" Is Denounced: Birth of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform
The Sociocultural Dimension: Concrete Experiences About Production of a New Social Place for Madness and Psychological Suffering
Final Considerations and Comments: Health and Psychiatric Counter-Reform or Dismantling the Brazil's Rule of Law.
The "Industry of Madness" Is Denounced: Birth of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform
The Sociocultural Dimension: Concrete Experiences About Production of a New Social Place for Madness and Psychological Suffering
Final Considerations and Comments: Health and Psychiatric Counter-Reform or Dismantling the Brazil's Rule of Law.