Resumen

BRITO, Monique Araújo de Medeiros  y  DIMENSTEIN, Magda. Circumventing the asylum metal bars: resistance stories molded in the total institution. Aletheia [online]. 2008, n.28, pp. 188-203. ISSN 1413-0394.

The study deals with the practicum experience at a psychiatric hospital. The asylum is a total institution, that is, a closed institution with a confinement regime that is responsible for the total life management of its patients. We proposed to look at the total institution and to search for the possible avoidance axes that cut cross that space. We present the results of that asylum immersion and the stories of resistance formed. The daily contacts were observed for movements, force-tensions and the surrounding affections, that is, for the micro-political plan in operation. Through observation and informal conversations with the patients and hospital staff, we managed to understand how relations are molded and the segregate aspects that are established in the institution, as well as the means by which they deal with them and escape from the structure.

Palabras clave : Total institution; Psychiatric reform; Madness.

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