Loucos pela diversidade: contribuições de Paulo Amarante à luta antimanicomial no Brasil

Abstract

This research presents the historical trajectory of madness based on the study of Paulo Amarante's contributions to the anti-asylum struggle in Brazil. A proposal that made an addendum to the course of theories and experiences of psychiatrists from other countries that supported ideas of changes in the forms of interactions considered violent in the reception and treatment of people considered "crazy". From the effervescence of the political context of 1970, social movements and their actions emerged based on the search for transformations with a view to deinstitutionalization, which not only signaled the closure of psychiatric hospitals, but also indicated the need to break the practices of seclusion of people with mental disorders mental hospitals that represented a long history of violence and segregation in Brazil. We evidence the psychiatric reform considering the effective participation of key actors who could, in the light of other experiences, propose the possibility of creating a care network that effectively replaces psychiatric hospitals. With that in mind, it is to discuss the legal path for the construction of substitutive care policies and to observe the existence of gaps left by the laws that bring slowness and insertion of new practices, from the government bureaucracy. Historically demonstrating all the problematic of madness, the fight for the right and exercise of citizenship, the inclusion of subjects affected by psychic suffering from the contributions of Paulo Amarante was our intention. It must be understood that it is necessary to move forward, as there is much to be done to achieve the guarantee of rights and freedoms for people suffering from mental suffering outside the gates of asylums