Abstract
The study aims to map the trajectory of structural racism and psychic suffering of a black woman accompanied by a psychiatric nursery in a General Hospital; and to reflect on the relationship between structural racism and psychic suffering. Racism is the technological operationalization, destined to the exercise of biopower, which places black people in inferior positions, determining disadvantages based on race. Racist violence imposes the debate on the field of mental health due to its influence on psychic suffering. Qualitative, descriptive and exploratory research, with a cartographic approach, through the trajectory of a user-citizen-guide, using a semi-structured interview and a cartographic field diary. The analysis made the scenes emerge: being black and how society sees us; self-hate; and loneliness of black women that demonstrate how psychic suffering is influenced by structural racism that condition the existence of black people to the lowest value, stigmatization and dehumanization. The subjectivity produced internalizes feelings of inferiority, loneliness, self-hatred and non-placement. It is urgent to problematize the racial issue in the production of mental health care, as well as a societal reform that provides the full existence of rights and dignity of black people.
Keywords:
Racism; Mental health; Black population