Brazilian anti-asylum movement

"Movimento Antimanicomial" , also known as "Anti-Asylum Fight" is an organized movement in Brazil consisting of Psychiatrists, Psychologists and Social Workers requesting a Humanitarian improvement in Psychiatrist Public Services. University campuses, hospitals and workers of the field tend to promote events in order to raise awareness and fight discrimination against mental patients.

The movement itself was born after a chain of worldwide political events and is celebrated on May 18 in Brazil. On May 18, 1987 about 350 employees of Mental Health reunited in the Brazilian city of Bauru, state of São Paulo in order to discuss and propose ways to change the archaic and inefficient Mental Health System in the country.

In its roots, the movement is connected to the Reforma Sanitária Brasileira (Brazilian Sanitary Reform) whose outcome was the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) ("Unified Health System"). It's also related to deinstitutionalisation of Psychiatry developed in the cities of Gorizia and Trieste in Italy, by Italian psychiatrist Franco Basaglia in the 1960s.

As part of its decorrent movement, Psychiatric Reform took place under Law 10216 of 2011 (Lei Paulo Delgado) seeking reformulation of the current model adopted by Mental Asylums, changing the focus of the treatment whose from systematic hospitalization to a more Psychosocial approach, including community and open services. According to the Brazilian Anti-Asylum Movement, public healthcare and mental health is a political and social complex process, composed by participants, institutions and actions of different sources taking place in many territories. It's a conjuncture of transformations in practices, knowledge, cultural and social values whose responsibility belongs not only to the hospital but also the government and people in interpersonal relationships. Therefore, the treatment is supposed to be held in a community base and the patients shall be given protection and receive proper treatment according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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