Doença mental e maternidade : uma história silenciada.

Abstract

This study seeks to promote discussion and questioning about mental illness and maternity. Historically, involving psychiatric reform, mental health has been expanding its performance, recongnizing the social roles of the subject, as well as the right to mental health, in its diverse contexts. Through decades we’ve had many achievements focused on women’s health, in what relates to equality of rights, such as physical and psychological care. Thus this study seeks to bring atention to maternity of women with mental illness, being important to consolidate the assumption on human and family rights, where the subject is not just another being stricken with mental ilness, but someone able to create lives. Therefore, six workers from a psicossocial care center, and from their accounts, under the perspective of sistemic theory and Bardin’s content analysis, it sought to evidence the forms of care expressed by the workers of health service, making one think about human rights and women’s rights to maternity. Among the discoveries, conflictions between rights and care are evident, which brings the necessity to reflect about the rights of those who are stricken with mental illness. It is concluded from this study the importance of making new studies about the subject, thus aiding the issues of suffering present in contemporary clinics and that may be connected to women’s wishes for maternity.