Vol. 44 No. especial 3 out (2020): Portraits of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform

“This special issue of the journal ‘Saúde em Debate’, entitled Portraits of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform, is a democratic commitment, historical tribute and sharing of knowledge. In each text, we have a portrait of our time. A clipping of the daily health services and forms of care that reveal a time that demanded social changes. Each composition is a kind of snapshot cut from the flow of productive time of the new paradigms of deinstitutionalization” (excerpt from the Presentation of this issue signed by the scientific editors).

The edition brings together themes such as: the Psychiatric Reform is possible; political backstage of the Paulo Delgado Law; the future of psychiatry and mental health; deinstitutionalization in debate; mental health and audiovisual production; digital inclusion with users of Psychosocial Care Centers (Caps); voice hearers, social movements, and politics; interprofessionality in mental health; abandonment and non-adherence to treatment in Caps; mental health in primary care in São Paulo; Matrix support in the articulation between primary care and Caps; family members of Capsi autistics patients (Caps Infantojuvenil) in Rio de Janeiro; care for families at Capsi; autonomous medication management in Caps of Curitiba; access to treatment for crack users; care in Caps AD (Alcohol and other Drugs) and Therapeutic Communities from the perspective of users; Permanent Education in Health/mental health/primary care; mental health beds in general hospitals in Rio de Janeiro; struggle for recognition of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform (RPB); RPB and parliamentary discussion; 'aquilombamento' towards the RPB; the contemporary crisis and challenges to the RPB; senses of the kitchen in the Caps and the inclusion of nutritionists in care; bibliometrics of publications in the journal ‘Saúde em Debate’; psychosocial care and living well: experience of a Singular Therapeutic Project through the dimensions of Gross National Happiness; book review ‘Legal capacity and human rights’.