Legitimación de la pericia psiquiátrica en México y participación del psicoanálisis

Abstract

We wonder how psychiatry has been established as a privileged practice within mental health in our country. We can see that the Mexican Government made it possible for physicians and psychiatrists to be legitimized, mainly from the moment the Manicomio General de La Castañeda opened its doors in 1910. The psychiatric expertise, an expression that we recover from Michel Foucault, and we relate with the participation that the psychoanalysis had within that expert practice also collaborated to that legitimization; due to the fact that for several decades of the twentieth century, it was considered a scientific and modern contribution to solve the legal challenge involving crime-mental alienation relationship. At the end of our writing, we wonder about the inscription that psychoanalysis currently has in the training of psychiatrists and its consequences by ignoring or recovering unconscious processes in the field of what is now called mental health.