Medicalização psiquiátrica em crianças e adolescentes abrigadas em Casas Lares de uma cidade do interior do Paraná

Abstract

This thesis deals with psychiatric medicalization in children and adolescents in shelter situation. The theme emerged from the speeches of those welcomed in individual psychological care that awakened us to the possibility that they are experiencing a more complex condition that could go beyond the demands presented in individual clinical care. We defined, then, as a research theme, to study a medicalization in this population, within the Master's Program in Social Psychology and Health at the Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná, with the aim of deepening and expanding our knowledge about a relationship between psychopharmaceuticals and those receiving care at Casas Lares. We chose Michel Foucault's arche-genealogy (1026-1984) as the episteme of our work, as it allows us to enter into discursive practices and, within them, to analyze the present enunciative function in the time and space clippings in which the research takes place. The subversion in the way of thinking about society, psychology and research present in Foucault favors the denaturalization of discourses and, consequently, a broad understanding of the phenomenon of medicalization. The production of data and composition of the qualitative research corpus was based on Bauer and Gaskel (2008) and took place through semistructured interviews with the employees of the two “Casas Lares” participating in the study, the analysis of the medical records and the notes from the field diary. The treatment of the data produced followed the Discourse Analysis proposed by Rosalind Gil (2008) and the discursive dispersion of Foucault (2018). As main scientific contributions, we present the spread of “minorization” discourses that corroborate the history of inclusion/exclusiveness present in the protective discourses of institutions.