The Psychosocial Paradigm

minimum parameters for substitutive practices to the Hospitalocentric Psychiatric Paradigm

Abstract

Costa-Rosa makes a paradigmatic analysis of the changes introduced by the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform going beyond it. He is revolutionary in conceptualizing the Psychosocial Paradigm (PSP), that objective is to instrumentalize practices in Collective Mental Health that are substitutive to the Psychiatric Hospitalocentric Medicalizing Paradigm (PHMP). The PSP has inaugurated a sui generis perspective about the ways of conceiving and producing health, taking a leap ahead of the liberal ideology, because it thinks the psychic reality and the social reality in continuity, so the psychic suffering does not can be adequately understood without discussing its socio-cultural context. In this work, our objective is to present the PPS as a theoretical-technical and ethical-political referential necessary for the advances of the Health Unic System in terms of Psychosocial Care