THE SOCIAL CROSSINGS OF MADNESS AND THE FEMININE: AN ANTIMANICOMIAL RHETORIC

Abstract

The present article, expectant of the different conceptions of madness and how it crosses the lives of thousands of women who live daily with the weight attached to this stigma, aims to discuss the factors that cross the construction of these subjectivities. This perspective is based on the strong influence of contextual, social, economic, historical and geographical aspects, highlighting its role in the propagation and promotion of social vulnerability that affects these women, especially the process of marginalization and depersonalization to which they are subjected. Therefore, this construct intends to contribute to the formation of knowledge in Psychology, Human and Social Sciences as a whole, as it emphasizes literature and research beyond a methodological bias, bringing sensibility and the creation of new possibilities for scientific work, along with the democratization of knowledge. With the purpose of building a broad vision about what touches femininity and its stereotypes in society, this study performs an analysis based on the antimanicomial perspective, emphasizing the importance of an integral and sensitive vision when looking at the biopsychosocial subject without reducing it to the psychopathological view.