From precarious lives to bare lives

an analysis of the Hospital of Custody and Psychiatric Treatment in Bahia from the perspective of anti-anicomial reform

Abstract

This is an article whose purpose is to discuss the reality of the Custody and Psychiatric Treatment Hospitals (HCTP) and the anti-asylum reform, focusing on the HCTP in Bahia. Indeed, the research has the following guiding question: is it possible to reconcile the security measure with the perspective of the anti-asylum reform, in particular the Hospital de Custody and Treatment of Bahia? Aiming to answer it, through a bibliographic review, with the use of Karl Popper's hypothetical-deductive method, the first chapter sought to address the concept of killable bodies, the annulment of individuals and the stigmatization of people with mental suffering who comply with a measure of security. Then, from the analysis of the jurisprudential understanding of the superior courts, the legal forecast and the secondary data produced (reports), the reality of the HCTP's in Brazil and particularly in Bahia was observed to, finally, analyze the anti-asylum reform and answer the problem question of the article, concluding by the lack of social interest in “tearing down the walls” and changing the segregating and punitive culture of security measures.

Keywords: Precarious and killable bodies; Custody hospital and psychiatric treatment; People in mental distress; Security measure; Anti-asylum reform.