[Multiprofessional Mental Health Residencies in Brazil: pedagogical projects and dialogues with an anti-asylum...

Multiprofessional Mental Health Residencies are strategic for psychosocial care in the Unified Health System. The scope of this study is to analyze the theoretical-methodological perspective, and dialogues with an anti-asylum praxis, of Multiprofessional Mental Health Residency Programs in Brazil. It involved a documentary survey of 17 pedagogical projects from these programs. IRaMuTeq software with similarity analysis, descending hierarchical classification and thematic analysis, was used to process the data. It was observed that theoretical support indicates a greater occurrence of psychopathology, problematizing the risk of reproducing the medicalizing psychiatric paradigm. It is also possible to identify the need to address mental health in primary care in training. The main achievements of residency training consist of dialogue with human rights and innovation in educational processes, trends towards the decolonial debate on madness, and challenges in disputes over models of care. It is argued that the path to an anti-asylum praxis is based on an understanding of the genesis of madness and the processes of social exclusion, since providing care in freedom requires an existential territory for broadening the ways of improving life.