Abstract

SOARES, Ilka de Araújo. Communication and mental health: the democratization of the communications' media as an instrument of identity reconstruction. Psicol. cienc. prof. [online]. 2004, vol.24, n.4, pp. 12-21. ISSN 1414-9893.

This research approaches the emergence of new ways of subjetivity, according to the psychiatric reform, refering to the means of communication, emphasizing the Communitarian TV. It reports the experience between the video nucleus from Philippe Pinel Institute in Rio de Janeiro and a proposal from a communitarian channel, produced by the users of the institution. It points to the legitimacy of the democratization of these means against the social segregation and the psychotic subordination, supported by the asylum practices that embraced the mental diseases historically. It discusses the local actions (based on membership relationships and group participation) using a global way (television language) as an important way to rebuild the social place of the mental deficiency.

Keywords : Mental health; Communitarian TV; Identity rebuilding.

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