Trabalho, Educação e Saúde - TES (Work, Education and Health) is an open access scientific journal, edited by the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health, from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.
Domingos Sávio do Nascimento Alves is a neurologist and sanitarian, specialized in Social Psychiatry through the Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health, of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (ENSP/Fiocruz). Since the 1980s, as a physician, and twice as a director of the Juliano Moreira Colony, and during the 1990s, as the coordinator of the Ministry of Health's Mental Health Technical Area, he has been one of the main actors in the Psychiatric Reformation process in Brazil. From the 1990s, in addition to serving as an occasional consultant for the Ministry of Health, he also served as one of the directors and as the last chairman of the Franco Basaglia Institute, a Rio de Janeiro non-governmental organization that advocated the rights of people with mental disorders. In this interview,1 Domingos addresses the current, conflicting situation of the Minister of Health's appointment2 of an undeniable critic of the reformation, and makes a brief analysis of the progress that has been made and of the challenges of this process.
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