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POLUBRIAGINOF, Cláudia  e  CAMPOS, Paulo Fernando Souza. Psychiatric nursing: analysis of the Manual Cuidados aos Psychopathas. Rev. Enf. Ref. [online]. 2016, vol.serIV, n.9, pp.125-132. ISSN 0874-0283.  https://doi.org/10.12707/RIV15056.

Context: The study evokes the institutionalization of Psychiatry in Sao Paulo, Brazil , in the early twentieth century. Objectives: To analyze the psychiatric nursing care practices, based on the manual Cuidados aos Psychopathas, in the Juquery Hospital, a renowened mental health institution in Brazil and Latin America. Methodology: This is an historical analysis based on the document review of the manual Cuidados aos Psychopathas, published in 1930 by Antônio Carlos Pacheco e Silva, who was, at the time, the hospital director. Results: The manual, with its 138 pages, is the first Brazilian publication written in Portuguese focused on Psychiatric Nursing. Conclusion: Nursing was instrumental in consolidating the asylum assistance model and practices, especially those performed by professionals without formal Nursing training, which were characterized by force and implementation of medical knowledge regardless of the patients' identity and individuality.

Palavras-chave : history of nursing; psychiatric hospital; psychiatric nursing.

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