Intercessor Device and Psychosocial Attention

subversion of the technocratic logic of contemporary psychiatric reform

Abstract

This article aims to reflect on the Intercessor Device, a concept coined by Costa Rosa, in the Field of Mental Health, but taking into consideration that the Psychiatric Reform (PR) and Psychosocial Attention are movements that have become parallel at the moment. Through a brief historical-critical discussion we can say that there is an initial PR based on Sanitary Reform and a contemporary neoliberal one. While it initially made political-economic discussions about the structure of society and its crossings in health, the contemporary PR started to make a technocratic discussion privileging the theme "access". The 2018 directives for a new Mental Health and Technical Note 11/2019 from the Ministry of Health make us interrogate ourselves about the emphasis on the technocratic discussion and the scoring of the discussion about Psychosocial Attention as Ethics, in the Field of Mental Health. In view of this scenario, we return to the work of Costa-Rosa about the Intercessor Device, as north to resume the Ethics necessary for the production of singularized subjectivities.