Abstract

DIMENSTEIN, Magda. The re-orientation of the Mental Health attention: about the quality and the humanization of the assistance. Psicol. cienc. prof. [online]. 2004, vol.24, n.4, pp. 112-117. ISSN 1414-9893.

The objective of this paper is to reflect upon some issues that constitute challenges to the Unified Health System managers and professionals, the quality and the humanization process in the health actions in mental health. Both concepts hold a prominent place in the psychiatric care reform process currently established in Brazil, as well as in the discourse of the professionals in mental health care. It discusses the quality and the humanization concepts differently from the traditional financial gains, nonhospitalization and assistencialist perspective. Instead they are linked to the principle of noninstitucionalization as a negation of the asylum logic that undermines subjective practices and enforces them as ethical mechanisms in the search for innovative life modes.

Keywords : Humanization of health practices; Health care quality; Mental health; Psychiatric reform.

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