DISCOURSE ON THE RULES OF SURVEILLANCE AND PUNISHMENT IN HETEROPATRIARCHAL BRAZILIAN SOCIETY: THE LEGACY OF BARBACENA-MG

Abstract

This article tells the story of one of the episodes with the greatest repercussions for Brazilian psychiatry, when the Barbacena Hospital in the 1930s received thousands of people, many without any kind of psychiatric problem, to be isolated in the world that normative society had denied them. In a period without inclusive public policies and in the absence of respect for human rights, people who did not have any kind of psychiatric or mental disorder were displaced by their families through abandonment in the Barbacena-MG hospital. The general objective is to show through history a cruel period that is called the
“Brazilian holocaust” in the city of Barbacena-MG where, due to the lack of social support, families and institutions housed people without mental health problems, and those who did were treated with methods and tactics contrary to the humanitarian practices of human rights in that health establishment.