Da letra da lei ao discurso dos profissionais : um estudo de caso do centro de referência em saúde mental de Betim - MG.

Abstract

This research analyses the Brazilian psychiatric reform, taking for study object the CERSM, in the town of Betim, Minas Gerais. The institutionalization process of the specialized organizations in madness treatment in Brazil is discussed and, especially in Minas Gerais, as an urgent speech about a ‘mental health’ discussion after the movements for sanitary and psychiatric reforms in this country. Here are retaken the texts about the public politics in psychiatric assistances and, later, mental health, understanding them as part of a higher historical process, where events are articulated, as well as practices, perceptions and games between knowledge and power. In this research, beyond the law, there is a searching for the CERSAM (Betim) professional speech, because they execute the implemented public politics, taking, somehow, the action of the state to the people. Inscribing, thus, the citizens as users of mental health services in the town of Betim.