Tratamento no modelo hospitalocêntrico: percepções de familiares e portadores de transtorno mental

Abstract

Thematic oral history-based research conducted in Curitiba, PR, Brazil, in 2009, with eight subjects in three families with a member affected by mental disturbance. The study aimed at describing the perception of both those affected by mental disturbance and of their relatives on hospital-centered assistance for mental health. Data were obtained through semi-structured interviews and treated on the basis of thematic analysis. Subjects charged the hospital-centered model with the successive internments in shelter-like institutions, and with the restrictive spaces such as strong cells used in the treatment of those affected by mental disturbance. They reported the use of the force, sedation, electro-convulse-therapy, physical contention in bed, and bandaging as some of the resources used lacking criteria. In conclusion, narratives help understand current changes in the assistance of those with mental disturbance.