Mental health, democracy and responsability

Authors

  • Alberto Olavo Advíncula Reis Universidade de São Paulo; Laboratório de Saúde Mental Coletiva; Programa de Pós-graduação em Saúde Pública

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7322/jhgd.19938

Keywords:

mental health, democracy, asylum judiciary, responsibility

Abstract

In this article the relationships between mental health and the tasks of the democracy in Brazil are focused. In such context, the challenges that the Custody and Psychiatric Treatment Hospitals present to the mental health field are studied. The Judiciaries Asylum, their logic and their population are considered as the last resistant border against the anti-asylum movement. Such institutions, placed between madness and crime, produce and reproduce, specifically and ambiguously, the myth of the danger/aggressiveness. Particularly in this context, the article analyzes the question of the responsibility of the author of infractions due to mental disorder.

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Published

2010-04-01

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 1 (2010)

Section

Original Research

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