Abstract

MOTA, Ana Maria Del Grossi Ferreira  and  MIRANDA, Rodrigo Lopes. Mental Illness, Anti-psychiatry, and Anti-diagnosis: Notes from Elso Arruda. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2022, vol.22, n.2, pp.896-916.  Epub May 03, 2024. ISSN 1808-4281.  https://doi.org/10.12957/epp.2022.68659.

Clinical psychology's conformation occurred by tensions produced by different professionals involved into the praxis of Psy's clinic, in Brazil. Part of this struggle is related to psychological methods and techniques to solve adjustment problems in the Psy's field - Psychiatry, Psychology and Psychoanalysis. This research aims to identify and characterize those tensions related particularly to Clinical Psychology based on one of its characters, Elso Arruda. Methodologically, this is a socio-bibliometric investigation, which is inserted in the intersection between the Social History of Psychology, the History of Psychiatry and the History of Psychoanalysis. For the content analysis of the primary sources, we used the Iramuteq software. Our results suggest that, among the Psy knowledge in the 1960’s, circulated proposals advocating psychiatric reform. Besides, these sources suggest a change in the notion of diagnosis guided by an antipsychiatric and antidiagnostic proposal, as well as the use of psychology, psychoanalysis, and existential phenomenology to understand the subject.

Keywords : history of psychiatry; history of psychology; history of psychoanalysis; mental health..

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