Abstract

ZANELLO, Valeska; FONSECA, Gabriela Macedo Pinheiro da  and  ROMERO, Ana Carolina. Psychiatric progress interviews: between the "Mental Illness" and the medicalization. Mental [online]. 2011, vol.9, n.17, pp.621-640. ISSN 1679-4427.

The present study aimed to investigate the implicit conceptions related to insanity and its treatment in the questions conducted by psychiatrists in the progress visits. The fieldwork was performed in the hospitalization sector of a public psychiatric hospital. A total of 88 visits conducted by 4 psychiatrists of the hospital - 2 men and 2 women - were observed. The data indicate the presence of a reified notion of insanity as a mental illness, whose actual traces would be the mental symptoms listed in the major psychiatric books, DSM and ICD, as well as a belief in the healing as a suppression of such symptoms. The drug appeared as the main solution, and its prescription as the preferential treatment method.

Keywords : Mental illness; psychiatrists; progressvisits; psychiatricpatients; insanity.

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