A Sociedade como instituição de controle e punição: o "Holocausto" brasileiro em Barbacena (MG)

Abstract

This paper presents a study of madness based on Michel Foucault's approaches to madness and the state, generating policies of control and "aryanization" in society, especially after the Civil Military Coup in Brazil in 1964. The main focus of the study is the asylum movement that took place in Brazil from the early 1960s until the late 1980s, when it was discontinued as a result of the Anti-Asylum Movement, which began after denunciations throughout the country. It deals with the Brazilian "Holocaust", which took place in the city of Barbacena, in Minas Gerais, where thousands of people were killed inside the Colony Hospital. After years of barbarism, in 2001 Law 10.216 was passed, which instituted the end of mental institutions and the recognition of the rights of all those with any physical or cognitive pathology, and as a result of the Psychiatric Reform, CAPS and NAPS emerged throughout the Brazilian nation. Finally, recognizing that the anti-asylum movement is still a hot topic, as there are still institutions that keep their patients in the same way as the Colony patients were treated before the reform.