Fesaude and the counter reform of mental health policy in the city of Niterói (RJ): analyzes and processes

Abstract

[eng] The context of crisis of capitalism experienced in recent years challenges the dominant classes to double the bet and act in an increasingly violent way against the working class; whether by withdrawing social rights or destroying basic elements of social policies, the super-exploitation of the working class serves a single objective: increasing its profit rates and maintaining the status quo. In Brazil, the solution outlined for resolving this crisis materializes through counter-reforms; more specifically in the so-called psychiatric counter-reform, which in the present case found in the State Foundations of Private Law an apparent solution to the gaps produced by the Brazilian State itself regarding the implementation of social mental health policies in the country. In Niterói (city in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro), its clearest example materializes in the State Health Foundation of Niterói (FESAUDE) as an analyzer of this non-classical privatization process of mental health policy. It is in this sense that the present communication seeks to analyze this process and its impacts on the psychosocial care policy in the municipality,