LOBOSQUE, Ana Marta. Foucault and the brazilian anti-asylum struggle: an intense presence. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) []. 2018, 24, 1, pp.324-336. ISSN 1677-1168.  https://doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2018v24n1p324-336.

In the book, History of madness in the Classical Age, Michel Foucault shows how the birth of the asylum, as well as that of the psychiatric discipline thereto constituted, is embedded in a constellation of punishment and guilt, as it came to be at the end of the 18th century, from certain rearrangements and mutations of power configurations. Arguing that Foucault’s analysis is inspired by the Nietzschean genealogical perspective, the author recapitulates and comments on some of the main theses that he introduces in the book in question. The author highlights the importance of Foucault’s contribution to the origin and development of the Brazilian anti-asylum movement, and questions some of its repercussions in the scenario of mental health and the political-institutional situation in Brazil today.

: Anti-asylum movement; Psychiatry; Madness; Guilt; Punishment.

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