Auto-Organização, Autonomia e o cuidado em Saúde Mental

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Maria Solange Castro
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Pereira, Maria Alice Ornellas [UNESP], Pereira Júnior, Alfredo [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://www.ibb.unesp.br/Home/Departamentos/Educacao/Simbio-Logias/auto_organizacao_autonomia_cuidado_saude.pdf; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/140648
• topic: Self-organization; Autonomy; Menthal health; Care; Auto-organização; Autonomia; Saúde mental; Cuidado

The hospice, prevalent for almost two hundred years as the only possibility of treatment for the mentally ill, is a discriminating, excluding institution, based on the negation of civil rights and autonomy of the subjects. The movement of Psychiatric Reform has made possible the construction of practices directed to the empowering of subjects in social relations. In this new context, the principle of autonomy emerges as a central value to be considered in mental health care. Mental illness is a strong disorganizing factor in the history of life, implying losses, disabilities, deficiencies, increased vulnerability e impairment of personal autonomy. In this condition, mental health care may use authority, but we understand that the exercise of autonomy is more important for life processes, reflecting the degree of self-organization achieved by the subject. Therefore, a gain in autonomy improves the conditions for personal self-organization. We suggest that a practice directed towards mental care should increase the subjects’ autonomy and consequently his/her self-organizing life process. This should be the challenge and the main goal to be attained in mental health care.