A (re)configuração da política de saúde mental: neoliberalismo e tendências de regressividade na garantia de direitos sociais

Abstract

This research, developed in the Master's Degree in Social Work at the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás - PUC Goiás, is the result of studies, concerns and problematizations related to the theme of social policy of public health with an emphasis on mental health, in the international context and in the current political situation, economic and social of Brazil. Theoretical, historical and conceptual in nature, it gathers bibliographical and documentary sources related to theses and projects in dispute in the sphere of health policy and its particularity of mental health, with emphasis on the actors who, since the 1960s, have formulated the main criticisms of the asylum model, directed at the closed and authoritarian character of the institution, giving rise to different attempts to reformulate both the asylum institution and traditional psychiatric knowledge. Called The (re) configuration of the mental: neoliberalism and regressive tendencies in guaranteeing social rights, health policy, the research analyzes the first traces of the neoconservative regressive logic policy in mental health services under the neoliberal hegemony in the country and the austerity measures tending to an economic stagnation, which reaches the field of work, with low wages, insecurity, unemployment, loss of benefits and protection through the feasibility of selective and focused policies. This policy reduces the resources dedicated to public social policies aimed at improving the conditions and quality of life of the population, leaving, however, segments of that population in impoverishment. In this sense, priority is given to examining counter-reforms and the neoconservative reversal of social policies, especially in mental health services, in order to demonstrate the materialization of regressiveness in the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform and its tendency towards the field of barbarism and dehumanization