SILVA, M. G. O.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3957377385496286; SILVA, Mirtys Gislaine Oliveira da.
Abstract:
The Brazilian Psychiatric Reform Law (10.216) of 2001, which deals with the
protection and rights of persons with mental disorders and redirects the health care
model, was one of the significant results of the anti-asylum struggle that has been
going on in the country since The impact of this law began to occur in Caruaru in
2011, closing the doors of the Santa Sofia psychiatric clinic and initiating the process
of transferring and adapting ex-inmates, patients and relatives to other units and
forms of treatment that had to emerge in the urban setting. In this context, there is
also a meticulous process of readaptation to the city spaces, appropriation of the city
and emancipation, not only social, but also political, cultural and, above all, personal
of those with mental disorders. The city and the streets are the great scenarios for all
these changes arising from the Psychiatric Reform and analyzing the paths to be
traced within them, in view of the process of institutionalization of madness, is of
fundamental importance. In order to follow these paths and to understand some of
the plots involved in this process, I made a bibliographical survey of the various
academic productions on the subject, a collection of data through memorialist texts
on websites, blogs, social networks and, above all, ethnographic experience and oral
memory reports of the various historical actors who experienced the experience of
madness in this city.
