Na presente resenha, pretendemos discutir o livro “Patologização e medicalização da vida: epistemologia e política”, composto por onze capítulos, publicado pela editora Zagodoni, em 2018, cujos organizadores são os professores e pesquisadores em Saúde Mental Paulo Amarante, Ana Maria Fernandes Pitta e Walter Ferreira de Oliveira. Conforme os organizadores anunciam no prefácio, o livro tem como objetivo reunir t...
The aim of this article was to present the conceptions and actions of mental health of the workers of the Family Health Attention Center (NASF) of the city of Fortaleza (State of Ceará) in the field of Mental Health. Particularly, with regard to the interventions carried out in the problem cases of use of crack, alcohol and other drugs in the Primary Health Care (PHC). To do so, a semi-structured interview was ...
After almost a quarter of a century since the creation of the Psychosocial Care Center of Quixadá city, Ceará, we come to a time when analysis and evaluations are welcomed and even needful. This report aims to think over about some aspects of the process of formation of the mental health policy in Quixadá. We consider the particularities of this healthcare experience, evident through of some postgraduate resear...
The purpose of this essay is to discuss, from the theoretical propositions of the Critical Theory of Society, especially those about the poverty of experience, cultural industry and technical rationality presented by Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin, the process of appropriation of present violence in the experiences of war by the cultural industry. Specifically, as the cultural industry has o...
The purpose of this study is to discuss how people who live on streets and are drug users, deal with the social exclusion they are subjected to, observing how the characters they represent influence their identities. Therefore, following the criterion of saturation, the narratives of two persons who lived on streets in the center of Fortaleza (CE) and who are drug users were utilized. Propositions presented by ...
This paper proposes, through the profile of women trafficking, addressing the issue of Human Trafficking in Brazil, taken as object of analysis in the Salve Jorge soap opera. For the analysis of discourses conveyed in the soap opera, we mapped all 179 chapters and located scenes related to discussions on trafficking of women, transcribed the most meaningful dialogues and discuss the contents. The analysis of th...
This study sought to understand how the category of poverty is pre-sented in documents that reference the current local Public Policiesin the field of alcohol and other drugs, in the context of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform. The analys-is of international and national documents was crossed by the phytosociological perspective, situated in the materialistic historical-dialectics tradition. The discussion took...
The purpose of this essay is to discuss the events of the narrative in order to understand the identity metamorphoses. For this, we begin with a brief summary of the context to which the narrative belongs, indicating its potential in the construction, reconstruction and reinvention of the past and the future. Then the criticism directed at the narrator’s figure, which would be endangered, are explored, as diagn...