Loucura e direito a alteridade

Every head, a sentence: Deconstructing stigmas in mental health

“…All this context shows that, in the end, the insane had to be stigmatized, enclosed in a delimited place and set aside to be studied, because history reinforces that the suffering of the sick person serves to make the so-called healthy know what evils threaten them and provide subsidies to avoid such suffering (Wickert, 1998).…”

“…Collectively, it is thought that the insane person is the one who has no reason, who exposes fear, who does not control his own impulses, escaping from social standards, needing specialized treatment (Wickert, 1998).…”

The New Brazilian Mental Health Policy and What Archeology has to do with it

“…Given that the asylum environment denies the subject the possibility to act with freedom of choice and alterity (after all, society and the science have established that he does not know what he is doing) such institution does not promote health; on the contrary, it only tends to standardize its patients, inserting them into a rigid routine, nullifying their former social references, in order to homogenize them, to control deviant behaviors and to cover them up with normative actions. As Wickert [7] points out, "behind a hospitalization, there is beneficial treatment and punishment, that is, the subject starts being taken care of and punished for being different"" -especially if we think that the mental patient carries the disease's label for the rest of his life as a social stigma. In this way, the asylum presents itself as a maintainer of the mental illness, since it prevents the subject from creating his own path to bear and deal with his frustrations, dreams and desires and therefore achieve his well-being [7].…”

“…As Wickert [7] points out, "behind a hospitalization, there is beneficial treatment and punishment, that is, the subject starts being taken care of and punished for being different"" -especially if we think that the mental patient carries the disease's label for the rest of his life as a social stigma. In this way, the asylum presents itself as a maintainer of the mental illness, since it prevents the subject from creating his own path to bear and deal with his frustrations, dreams and desires and therefore achieve his well-being [7].…”