Madness and city: bipolitics scenes and (dis) institutionalizing incursions

Authors

  • Ana Karenina Arraes Amorim Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
  • Magda Dimenstein Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Keywords:

madness, town, deinstitutionalization, mental health.

Abstract

On this article, we start from the assumption that the relation town-madness serves as an analyzer of the deinstitutionalization process in mental health and we seek to indicate the disciplinary and biopolitical borders in operation in this field. For such, we analyze some urban scenes and certain events which we follow in a research about the care practices within a Therapeutic Residential Services (TRS). And, based on the recognition of biopower operation modes in the relation town-madness, we are willing to argue that the resistance forms of biopolitically configured asylums in contemporary should operate macro and micro politically through "struggles in network".

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Author Biographies

Ana Karenina Arraes Amorim, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Doutora em Psicologia Social pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Professora do Departamento de Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte.

Magda Dimenstein, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Doutora em Saúde Mental pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Professora do Departamento de Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Pesquisadora do CNPq.

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Published

2009-09-16

How to Cite

AMORIM, A. K. A.; DIMENSTEIN, M. Madness and city: bipolitics scenes and (dis) institutionalizing incursions. Fractal: Journal of Psychology, v. 21, n. 2, p. 319-336, 16 Sep. 2009.

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 2 (2009)

Section

Dossiê Cidades

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