A gestão do sofrimento psíquico infantojuvenil: Uma pesquisa com a Rede de Atenção Psicossocial do município do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

In this thesis, we investigate the notion of psychological suffering, comparing this concept with those of social suffering and mental disorder, in the child and adolescent psychosocial care network of the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. We consider as a starting point the construction of the feeling of childhood and its penetration in Brazil through the hygienist discourse, resulting in the late insertion of the child in the Brazilian psychosocial care agenda. Next, we point out the discursive polyphony contained in the notion of suffering and approach the subject theoretically from the Foucauldian genealogical method, identifying in this polyphony the discourses: anthropological, biomedical and psychoanalytic. From there, we explore the different levels of childhood government, guided by the concepts of biopower, biopolitics, governmentality and medicalization. To advance in the investigation, we applied a qualitative methodology with data collection technique through focus group, carried out from the report of a tracer case, elected by each team of four CAPSi from the child and adolescent psychosocial care network of the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. The research findings show us, for now, that the notion of mental disorder, representative of the biomedical discourse, remains present in mental health practices in parallel with the notions of psychic suffering and social suffering. However, there is a certain masking of suffering motivated by the social in favor of psychic suffering which, to be recognized, needs to be named as a disorder. This finding seems to be justified by the very psychic condition of the child and even of the adolescent, still presented (spoken) by the other. In our interpretation, this condition is radicalized when the child’s social history does not offer him marks of the infantile that would favor the feeling of childhood to be represented in the stories of these children and adolescents.