Abstract
The debate on the psychological consequences of racism is becoming more prominent in the field of Anti-Asylum Psychiatric Reform. We consider institutionalization in Brazil to be rooted in coloniality, defining manicolonial as a tie between the black signifier and madness. Aiming to investigate critical movements, from the methodological perspective of cartographic research, we followed two anti-racist collectives in the Psychosocial Care Network of the Municipality of São Paulo - Kilombrasa and Café Preto - between 2019 and 2021. The information gathered through observative participation of activities, interviews, and conversation circles with professionals was transformed into narrative fragments. The prioritization of relational experience as racialization - blackening - and diasporic experience - disorienting the north - produces anti-racist effects and a rescue of the liberatory ethical-political radicality of the Anti-Asylum Fight. This time, however, radicalized as antimanicoloniality: re-signification of the insane and the black in a black Atlantic passage, a crossing idea opposed to the fixed thought characteristic of manicoloniality.
Keywords:
Racism; Mental health; Psychosocial care; Madness; Coloniality