A ALIENAÇÃO MENTAL E SUAS (RE)PRODUÇÕES NA CONTEMPORANEIDADE

This paper reflects starting with the concept of "insanity" forged during the XVIIIth century when the madness is known and recognized as mental illness. The insanity is then understood as a product of the practices that worked on the madness, the result of crossing held by some forms of knowledge and power, involving interventions that operate through institutional arrangements that produced certain forms of subjectivity outlining it as necessarily psychopathological . Understanding the process of crossing the madness suffered by psychiatric paradigms is proposed, therefore, think about the alienating devices today, especially those practices coming from the biomedical models with respect to subjectivity, including therein the increasing medicalization of indiscriminate individuals