Psychiatry and Pedagogy: a study of Psychiatric Medicine education proposals of the Inaldo de Lira Neves-Manta

Abstract

This study examines the support of the criminalization of drugs in the  twentieth century argument by psychiatric medicine Inaldo Lira Neves- Manta. Member of the National Academy of Medicine, whose memory
written to joining the institution versa on the subject , he devotes much of his life to institutional commitments. We understand the National Academy of Medicine as part of the medical device and theories of the psychiatrist as ways of realizing the thought that group of doctors, through which materialize the government projects. The concept of addiction as a disease of behavior as abnormal jurisdiction of the psychiatric clinic , defines two fundamental points of the apparatus of medicine in the early twentieth century : 1 - the consolidation of clinical psychiatry as a medical
specialty , with its specific object , approaches and procedures ; 2 - the enthronement of rationality - psi ( psychiatric , psychoanalytic ) in the field of education , following the slope of the medical device centered hygienist as eugenicist in the unfolding of this approach. Neves-Manta is here understood as representative of a medical group responsible for the preparation and dissemination , throughout the twentieth century , the thesis that supported the use of drugs such as physical and moral disease . His work and the institution appear especially at times when the rule of law was suspended and governmentality country needed reinforcements.