The study evokes the institutionalization of Psychiatry in Sao Paulo, Brazil , in the early twentieth century. Objectives: To analyze the psychiatric nursing care practices, based on the manual Cuidados aos Psychopathas, in the Juquery Hospital, a renowened mental health institution in Brazil and Latin America. Methodology: This is an historical analysis based on the document review of the manual Cuidados aos Psychopathas, published in 1930 by Antônio Carlos Pacheco e Silva, who was, at the time, the hospital director. Results: The manual, with its 138 pages, is the first Brazilian publication written in Portuguese focused on Psychiatric Nursing. Conclusion: Nursing was instrumental in consolidating the asylum assistance model and practices, especially those performed by professionals without formal Nursing training, which were characterized by force and implementation of medical knowledge regardless of the patients' identity and individuality.
Estudos interdisciplinares indicam que o diálogo entre história e saúde constituem uma oportunidade a mais no processo de desmonte do controle dos corpos e das subjetividades. Fundado na documentação histórica o artigo evoca a Liga Brasileira de Higiene Mental – LBHM e evidencia impactos de narrativas médicas em relação às questões de gênero, destacadamente, sobre feminilidade. Os resultados sinalizam para permanências estruturais da dominação histórica que a medicina mental decisivamente promoveu, no caso, centrado na ideia de mulher-esposa-mãe.
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