Abstract
This article develops a critical reflection to the current motion linked to the Compulsory Hospitalization (CH) initiatives, as an approach and treatment proposal for the people in drugs use, in a context of the new challenges that arise facing the continuity of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform (BPR). We analyzed the CH device while visibility regimen producer, perceiving that its practice and legitimation along the cocaine crack user population is associated to elements of historical motions updating, present since XIX century, as presented by Foucault. These motions of articulation among the medical and legal powers produce practices that legitimate itself, by the appropriation of this population as the new Abnormal subject over whom it is intended to intervene. This maneuver also opens breaches for the utilization of mechanisms referring to the CH present in the BPR law non linked to the other terms, mainly those which are targeting to preserve and sustain the people’s rights who are covered and assisted by the Mental Health politics, and uphold the rights of people who are assisted by mental health policies, counteracting the progressive aspects belonging to its origin. We consider the initiatives of CH processes intensification, action expressions of the biopower, with relevance in the production of politics and contemporary subjectivities of resistance against the continuation and expansion of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform (BPR).
Keywords:
mental health; compulsory hospitalization; mental health services; Brazilian Psychiatric Reform