A concepção de loucura e do seu tratamento entre os trabalhadores de Saúde mental de uma Instituição prestadora de serviço em nível secundário de atenção.

Abstract

This paper aims at analyzing madness, as considered by mental health care workers from a second level service institution, and how they see the therapy offered by the organization. A research was conducted through semi-structured interviews with mental health care workers. Speech analysis allowed to observe various forms of acquiring madness, divided in two groups: one which reproduces scientific knowledge (linked to the different lines of thought in the area) and the other, that reproduces knowledge acquired through practice. This last group enables a social view of madness, which is a result of social differences. Authors also found the dangerousness of the mentally sick, split in three categories.