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Estudos e Pesquisas em Psicologia

 ISSN 1808-4281

SCARPARO, Helena Beatriz Kochenborger; PIZZINATO, Adolfo    ACCORSSI, Aline. Contexts, processes and memory: narratives about mental-healthcare from the 1960's to the 1980's in Brazil. []. , 11, 1, pp.333-352. ISSN 1808-4281.

This article reports partial results of researches that are being developed, in the Social History dimension, about the institutionalization processes of Psychology in Brazil. In this text, we discuss memories of the mental healthcare practices and build considerations about the Brazilian context of the 1960s, '70s and '80s, specially concerning the practices developed in Rio Grande do Sul state. Among the approaches utilized to sustain this study, oral history with narrative collection is preeminent. These narratives were associated with documents and mediatic material. From this corpus, the analysis of the narratives that were in the practices of mental healthcare in the period mentioned above were effectuated. Among the results obtained, are highlighted: the influence of Community Psychiatry and the relevance of previous community healthcare experiences for the attainment of changes in conceptions and practices of health and, more specifically, in the Brazilian mental healthcare policies

: Mental healthcare; History; Public policies.

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