Abstract
The Brazilian Mental Health National Policy was progressively drawn in institutional acts that sought to consolidate the community-based care model through deinstitutionalization guidelines, achieving legislative advances, especially after Law No. 10.216/2001. This article aims to analyze the so-called Brazilian New Mental Health Policy considering the period from 2011 to 2020. For this, regulatory acts of Brazilian governments were analyzed in line with recent publications on the subject, inspired by the post-constructivist paradigm in its conjunction with the in-depth evaluation of policies in terms of the dimension of text in policy institutional trajectory analysis. The dismantle of social protection in mental health was observed through the deconstruction of psychosocial care in conformations of the Brazilian State. Although setbacks are more intense after the resurgence of conservatism in the current government, the study strengthens the argument that measures instituted in other political contexts also hampered the process of breaking away from the asylum model. It is understood that institutional acts developed within Brazilian governments in the period from 2011 to 2020 materialize a digression of the Psychiatric Reform through the implementation of a New Policy in 2017.
Keywords:
Public Policy; Health Policy; Mental Health; Public Health Administration