Retrocessos na política nacional de Saúde Mental: consequências para o paradigma psicossocial

Abstract

– This theoretical essay discuss the main changes in the Bra- zilian National Mental Health Policy in the period from 2016 to 2020, when the so-called ‘New National Mental Health Policy’ is instituted. In this sense, we endorse the argument of several authors who qualified the new guidelines as regressions in face of the achievements of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform. In this context, this essay is intended as a justification for the pertinence of terms such as ‘regression’ and ‘counter-reformation’, highlighting above all the ethical and political aspects involved in these characterizations. For that, we did a paradig- matic analysis of the antagonistic ways of producing mental health care, which allowed to demonstrate the tension established by new legislation with the postulates of the Psychiatric Reform and Psychosocial Care