Cidade e loucura : entre liberdades e aprisionamentos.

Abstract

The present work discusses the contemporary strategies of imprisonment and institutionalization of madness in the city, trying to comprise how to configure the city-madness relationship today. The production data of this research took place at Psychosocial Care Center (CAPS, in Portuguese), in a country town of Rio Grande do Sul state. From systematic observations in this service and meetings with workers and users, using as data recording the production of a field logbook, it became possible to know the speeches that have been produced about the experience of madness and as such speeches delimit specific places for the mad in the social space. The data production was organized from the establishment of five scenarios, which seek to describe and discuss some of the field events. The scenarios were thought according to the experiences, narratives and dialogues that emerged in meetings with workers and users. Thereafter, raised up some thoughts and questioning regarding on practices that have been directed to the madness in the contemporaneity, as well as about the biopolitics strategies and their subtle mechanism of life control at open air, marking where and how occurs the separation between hospice and CAPS and where and how happen approaches, from a reconfiguration of madness management strategies in the city. In addition, it was possible to know some resistance strategies and practices of freedom woven by the users when intending to break up with the institutionalization of life.