TRANSTORNOS MENTAIS GRAVES

UMA LUTA DE RESISTÊNCIAS DENTRO DA REALIDADE DOS CAPS

Abstract

This article focuses on the role of Psychosocial Care Centers (CAPS) in dealing with severe mental disorders, from a critical and psychoanalytic perspective. Based on the historical perspective of madness as a social construction, the article discusses the persistence of asylum practices in new institutional guises. The general objective of the research is to analyze the role of CAPS in dealing with severe mental disorders, from a critical and psychoanalytic perspective, in order to understand how these psychosocial care centers respond to the demands of individuals in intense psychological distress, questioning whether such practices actually break with the exclusionary logic of the asylum. The methodology adopted is a bibliographic review, based on the contributions of Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan and other thinkers of the Psychiatric Reform and Psychoanalysis, in order to map the control and care devices that have historically marked the treatment of madness. The expected result is to provoke conceptual shifts in the understanding of mental disorders, contributing to the critique of excessive pathologization and to the valorization of singular therapeutic practices, supported by human dignity and the universal right to mental health.