Brazilian Psychiatric Reformation and its parliamentary discussion: political disputes and counter-reformation

Abstract

The present essay has a qualitative and exploratory character centered on the parliamentary debate of PL No. 3,657/1989, which generated Law No. 10,216/2001. The objective was to reconstruct discourses and expand the comprehensive critical picture about the positions of legislative actors. The historical documentary corpus (1989-2001) comes from the funds of the Chamber of Deputies and Diaries of the National Congress, collected on the electronic websites in December 2019. All the parliamentary records of the processing of Law No. 10,216, that involved voting and amendments discussion, were used. Among secondary sources, interviews with the author of the law, Paulo Delgado (2017 and 2018), and indexed scientific literature, derived from an integrative review at the BVS/Medline (2015-2019). Through the dialectical hermeneutic historical method, comprehensive and critical reflection of the discourses was established. Favorable and unfavorable positions of federal congresspeople were reconstructed in order to understand the historical force fields and potential consonances with the counter-reformation movements experienced today.