Os caminhos da loucura na atuação da reforma psiquiátrica em Caruaru - PE.

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.