BETWEEN MADNESS AND THE INTERPROFESSIONAL PRAXIS OF CARE: REFLECTIONS ON INTERDISCIPLINARITY IN MENTAL HEALTH

Abstract

This paper aims to develop a theoretical reflection on interdisciplinarity in mental health, in order to reflect on madness and mental health in the panorama of Brazilian psychiatric reform; to analyze interdisciplinarity as a background to mental health actions; and to understand how interprofessionality is structured as  an interdisciplinary praxis in mental health. To this end, a reflection study was undertaken, based on a literature review - books and articles - that contemplated the categories/themes "mental health", "interdisciplinarity", "Brazilian psychiatric reform" and/or "history of madness". Mental health and interdisciplinarity have their genesis in limited knowledge and/or limiting action. On the one hand, interdisciplinarity as an alternative to fragmentation and specializations; on the other, Mental Health, which is framed on the canvas of the Reform opposed to the traditional, standardized and specialized practices of traditional psychiatry (medical specialty). On the very near horizon, the non-straight lines of the two areas of knowledge/study/action meet, more in an infinite elliptical movement of encounters and reencounters, than of parallels. When considering the creative and multicentric character of interdisciplinarity, it remains to be used as a formative principle, in the alleged proposals of multiprofessional and interprofessional education (to the extent that ethical and professional maturity is constituted) in mental health.