Abstract

SEI, Maíra Bonafé  and  SANTIAGO, Eneida. The family in the history of mental health care policies: a documentary study. Est. Inter. Psicol. [online]. 2019, vol.10, n.3, suppl.1, pp. 04-23. ISSN 2236-6407.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5433/2236-6407.2019v10n3suplp04.

In this article the delineation and problematization of the family institution is done as supporting the care processes of the subject in psychological distress. This course was based on the cartography of Brazilian legislation that dealt directly with health and mental health care and attention, policies that we consider as products and producers of social, political and scientific agencies, configuring discourses as truths in those moments. The documents discussed were the first Brazilian psychiatric care legislation of 1903, a second decree of 1934 and the Psychiatric Reform Law of 2001. At the same time, a review was conducted on studies that linked family and mental health care. In the end, we indicate that the notion of family is present in the history of mental health care policies, but with different legal and therapeutic positions and functions, depending on the historical context considered, being crossed by biases of gender, race and socioeconomic characteristics. In addition, we note that the call and the presence of the family in the care and care of the subject in psychological distress took on forms coincident or approximate with the transformations that the family institution itself has experienced in recent decades.

Keywords : family; public health; psychiatric reform; public policy; health legislation.

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