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Madness and Social Change: Autobiography of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform

Madness and Social Change: Autobiography of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform

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Medical ReferenceGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 3031133749
ISBN13: 9783031133749
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Sep 7 2022
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
In this book, the history of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform is told by one of its main protagonists. In the early 1980s, there were about 80 thousand people admitted to psychiatric hospitals in Brazil, with average lengths of hospital stay of approximately 25 years. The psychiatric reform process that took place in the country was responsible for closing more than 60 thousand beds in mental asylums, most of them characterized by conditions of violence and abandonment.

The Brazilian Psychiatric Reform was inspired by the psychosocial care model introduced by psychiatrist Franco Basaglia in Italy and was marked by the broad participation of social movements, such as the anti-asylum movement and other human rights movements. This process gave rise to a model of mental health care based on open-door territorial mental health services, guided by the principle of treatment in liberty, in addition to other strategies of deinstitutionalization.

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