SCHIZOANALYSIS AND DECOLONIALISM, KEY CONCEPTS FOR A NEW MENTAL HEALTH
Abstract
Dealing with key concepts such as "decolonialism", "psychiatric reform" and "schizoanalysis" and trying to integrate them constitutes both a challenge and a step towards the resumption of an episteme of the human psyche that contemplates a more humane clinic and that acts rigorously on the social space that exists according to the perception and appropriation by the social subject. It is possible, in this chapter, to understand the intercession between the colonized reality and the predisposition to mental illness by a symbolic system that makes lives invisible and makes lives less likely to mourn or identify belonging without the use of a mask. The consequences of this reflect the alienated colonized's neglect of their own condition, causing them to signify and see the world through the lens of colonized thought and reinforced by corrosive institutions that crystallize these concepts.
Therefore, the schizoanalysis of Deleuze and Guattari emerges as a decolonial power to destroy the ties of the individual's desiring machine and to construct through group devices, schizodrama and cartography and its reaffirmation as an existence endowed with intrinsic value even in the face of the cultural clash between colonial hegemonic culture and countercultures and diverse existences.
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Copyright (c) 2024 Yuri Gabriel Borba Gomes Silva, Leandro Vargas Esteves, Lorena Figueiredo Valadares, Maria Eduarda Utsch, Gabriel Cenachi Vieira, Guilherme Augusto Melo de Oliveira, Joao Paulo Viana Alves, Lorena Xavier Santa Bárbara, Renata Damiano RiguiniAuthor(s)
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Yuri Gabriel Borba Gomes Silva
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Leandro Vargas Esteves
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Lorena Figueiredo Valadares
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Maria Eduarda Utsch
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Gabriel Cenachi Vieira
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Guilherme Augusto Melo de Oliveira
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Joao Paulo Viana Alves
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Lorena Xavier Santa Bárbara
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Renata Damiano Riguini