Psychiatry, segregation and punishments: analyzes from Michel Foucault

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: This article aims, through a theoretical essay, to think about relations between Psychiatry, spaces of segregation in Foucault's studies, from courses, conferences, interviews, classes, books and through some commentators by Michel Foucault, in Brazil. METHODS: Analyzing the control spaces of bodies in hospitals and prisons was part of the objectives of this text, considering a conceptual analysis as a methodology. Punitive and psychiatric practices are intertwined in this analysis under the axis of power and knowledge relations linked to space. PROVISIONAL CONCLUSIONS: To problematize this field of a political history of truth, at present, is a point of concern and activation of the operative writing of this article with theoretical-conceptual analyzes with the interface of Psychiatry with the spaces of segregation, hospitalization and imprisonment.