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2036/2013 - From Patients to Stories: An Ethnography with Psychiatric Inpatient Care Releases
De Paciente a Causo: uma etnografia com egressos de internação psiquiátrica

Author:

• Martinho Braga Batista e Silva - Batista e Silva, M. B. - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Instituto de Medicina Social da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - <silmartinho@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3577-958X

Thematic Area:

Ciências Sociais

Abstract:

Social Science contributions to the understanding of psychiatric care have highlighted the passage from person to patient, and from patient to case, both crucial to the moral career of the mentally ill. In this article I investigate another moment relevant to a discussion on illness and social identity: the passage from patient to story. Between 2007 and 2010 I conducted ethnographic fieldwork with users of a care network, their relatives and neighbors. I highlighted not only the administrative categories that professionals in the network used to designate them, but also the ones used by other villagers. Some villagers are considered doidos ("looonies") without having been admitted as "patients" to the local inpatient facility. Others are "users", registered at an outpatient service; or "clients", when they are frequent users. Some are called bonequeiros ("troublemakers"), "nervous", or barulhentos ("noisy crackpots") because of their behavior in public. Finally, by becoming the object of comments by people on the street, they also become "stories", which are eventually discussed at the mental care facilities, thus becoming "clinical cases". Either as cases, stories, or causes, mental disorders are as relevant to the management of a stigmatized social identity as surnames and nicknames.

Keywords:

social identity mental health stigma family community

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Batista e Silva, M. B.. From Patients to Stories: An Ethnography with Psychiatric Inpatient Care Releases. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2013/Dec). [Citado em 27/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/from-patients-to-stories-an-ethnography-with-psychiatric-inpatient-care-releases/14920



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