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This essay uses the notion of enchantment to build an anti-racist and decolonial dialogue with the field of mental health and psychosocial care. It problematizes the racist foundations that produce the silencing, erasure, and homogenization of experiences within the Psychiatric Reform and the Anti-Asylum Struggle in Brazil and highlights the need to utilize quilombola (inhabitant-like) as a guiding component of the ethical-political dimension and the construction of a clinical-political praxis that empowers life and produces enchantment. From an intersectional, decolonial, Marxist feminist perspective, three problematizing questions are raised: the urgency of the enchantment of Psychiatric Reform and the Anti-Asylum Struggle; quilombola (inhabitant-like) as a component of the ethical-political dimension; the clinical practice of delicacy as praxis. In this sense, the essay aims to instigate debate by bringing new perspectives to the field of mental health, proposing another theoretical, political and clinical approach to psychosocial care based on Afro-diasporic experiences.
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