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Discursive practices and silence of the mental patient: denied sexuality?

The study’s objective was to identify the professionals nurses’s Social Representations about the sexuality of the mental patient. It is a research of exploratory-descriptive nature, with qualitative approach. The resource technicianmethodological used denominated Technique of Investigation in Daily Situations (TSC), applied to 17 nurses that worked in psychiatric services of Ribeirão Preto/SP. Through the discursive manifestations, was verified that the professional nurse denies the sexuality of the mental patient, as a silence form, establishing limits for the censorship on that subject. In this perspective happens the silentness about the sexuality of the mental patient, settling down a politics of the sense on the same. Such positioning reveals the strategy adopted on that knowledge and power, accomplishing the determinations of your professional statute that it is to go to the encounter to the institutional and social expectations.

Mental health; Sexuality; Mentally Ill Persons; Psychiatric Nursing; Qualitative Research


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