Abstract

GUARESCHI, Neuza Maria de Fátima; LARA, Lutiane de; ECKER, Daniel Dall'Igna  and  CARDOSO, Ananda Pinto. CAN ANY CAUSE BE A POTENTIAL CAUSE OF MENTAL ILLNESS? BRAZILIAN ARCHIVES OF MENTAL HYGIENE AND THE OUTLINE OF THE MODERN MAN. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2016, vol.22, n.2, pp.315-335. ISSN 1677-1168.  https://doi.org/DOI-10.5752/P.1678-9523.2016V22N2P315.

This paper aims at discussing the notion of mental hygiene advocated by the document Brazilian Archives of Mental Hygiene by considering the Foucauldian approach of govern mentality and bio-power strategies. We have analyzed a public health journal published by the Brazilian League of Mental Hygiene in Brazil from the 1920s to the 1940s in which the notion of mental hygiene was converted into a certain behavioral prophylaxis, in favor of a collective ideal of progress in Brazil at that time. The discussion about such material has evidenced that the process of government of life grounded in truths about the subjects who both legitimate the needs of the emerging urbanization and, as a result, constitute elements for the ideal of the modern man

Keywords : Mental health; Michel Foucault; Contemporaneity.

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