Judiciary Mental Hospital: is it Possible for the Mentally ill Offenders to resist?

Abstract

The paper approaches the issue of resistance problematized by Michel Foucault and it analyzes the possibility conditions, both of the so-called mentally ill offenders, inpatient of judicial psychiatric institution and of the psychiatry professional in been able to resist the instituted, that which is put and set. To that end, we anchored in the Foucault's philosophical thought and in the subject's creative capability to invent everyday life through new ways of doing that subvert the dominant order, highlighted by Michel de Certeau. Our aim is to present the view of those two authors regarding the issue of resistance and the strategies to dribble the chronicity of the instituted and, thus, to think on the health operator's performance in his everyday practice inside total institutions.

Institutionalization; Forensic psychiatry; Resistance; Ways of doing