Estigmatização social da loucura e os desafios da atual conjuntura brasileira para a saúde mental: uma análise sobre a construção sócio-histórica da loucura e os impasses do avanço do conservadorismo para a Reforma Psiquiátrica

Abstract

The following work deals with a research about the historical trajectory of the social stigmatization of madness understood as a socio-cultural construction for the debate of the challenges in the current Brazilian political and social conjuncture. The proposal is to analyze in the socio-cultural scope the role of madness and insanity in Brazilian society in order to apprehend the current challenges for the implementation of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform and the Antimanicomial Struggle in a context of conservatism. Based on the bibliographic review method considering the main issues that permeate the central theme of the research and reference authors in the area of ​​Mental Health, as well as the Entities related to the Psychiatric Reform and the Antimanicomial Struggle. With this work, the objective is to contribute with the guidelines of the Psychiatric Reform in the demystification of insanity and in the apprehension of the challenges posed by the advance of conservatism and its setbacks in the area of ​​mental health that reinforce the return to the logic and practice of asylums. From the research and analysis of what has been produced, it concludes that it is necessary to recognize society and the State as stigmatizers so that we can deconstruct old prejudices and strengthen ourselves against the conservative advance.