“Freedom is Therapeutic”: democratic psychiatry and the double revealed by Franco and Franca Basaglia’s thought revisited

• Autor(a) principal: Rocha, Luana Fonseca da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Rocha, Gustavo Rodrigues
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Memorandum (Belo Horizonte)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/memorandum/article/view/39304
• topic: psiquiatria democrática; História da Psicologia; história da psiquiatria; movimento antimanicomial; estudos de gênero; democratic psychiatry; history of psychology; history of psychiatry; anti-asylum movement; gender studies

The so-called democratic psychiatry, as expressed through the work and lives of Franco Basaglia and Franca Ongaro Basaglia, will be revisited in this paper in its epistemic feature. Therefore, it will be argued in this paper that the motto Freedom is Therapeutic has, besides its therapeutic meaning, an epistemic meaning as well. In order to argue for this thesis, the critiques made by Franco and Franca Basaglia to institutional psychiatry will be analyzed under the revisited context of the current, and most updated, literature in Science Studies. The concepts of double, generally speaking, and of gender, strictly speaking, will be some of the conceptual tools for this analysis. The perspectives from Science Studies, Feminist Epistemology, and the most recent and updated historiography of science and psychology will be made tools to analyze the works by Franco e Franca Basaglia under this new lens.