Entre fronteiras: estudo das relações entre a psiquiatria e a psicanálise

Abstract

This tesis aims at providing a historical approach of relationships developed between the psychiatric and psychoanalytic thought in order to explain why the demand for psychoanalytic support has been declining in Rio de Janeiro. An answer shall be reached by means of a discussion between the groundwork attempts of mental suffering etiology. To make us reflect in wich historical context some models and demands may have contributed to explain the reduction in the demand for the psychoanalytic technique at present, the work herein was divided into four chapters. Since the early days of psychiatry with Pinel until now, the chapters focus on a historical period and its prevailing discursive order. Historically keeping up with the prevalence of these discursive orders ( biological and psychological), we wrap up this work by demonstrating the changes occurred in the causes of psychic suffering from the beginning of XIX century to the present.