Mente vazia, oficina do diabo: um estudo sobre jovens diagnosticados com transtorno de conduta num ambulatório público de saúde mental em Santa Cruz - RJ

Abstract

The diagnostics manuals of psychiatry and the international classifications of disorders are showing the derangement of the behavior like one of the most commons disorders that affect children and teenagers who live in a poor and urban environment. This work investigate how the emergency and the development of this area emerge form the transformations on the cultural scenario by the capitalism, like the lack of jobs, increase of the violence and the constant feeling of social insecurity. Search to know how this category appear like a shape of stigma and control in the contemporaneous society of those list young people, because this derangement are point like one of the explanations for the violence that those kids commit. This work was done in a context of a mental health ambulatory, on a poor neighborhood, in Rio e Janeiro, with teenagers who were diagnostic with those disorders. As methodology, were used the review of the discourse of the professionals who work in a public health ambulatory in relation to the young people who were diagnostic. At the same time we done the review of the therapeutic conduct of the professionals thought those teenagers. This work shows the extreme use of medications in the treatment of those young people, spite a few scientific evidence being really prove.