Macedo MRC. Mental health observatories in machinic times. Interface (Botucatu). 2026; 30: e250348 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1590/interface.250348
Abstracts
This essay reflects on mental health observatories as devices for communication, memory and reflexivity. It consists of an interdisciplinary analysis in which mental health literature, philosophy, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and communication sciences engage in dialogue. In machinic times, in the context of fierce dispute between emancipation movements and the regression of civilization, reforms and counter-reforms, in which new modes and technologies of communication and a crisis of narratives and projects of change arise, mental health observatories emerge as devices for observation, production/analysis of information, scientific production and management support in the field of mental health. This article analyzes the paradoxes in this field and highlights the potential for innovation of these observatories to contribute to change, supporting policies and collective actions, and possibilities for producing social memory, communication, reflexivity and autonomy.
Keywords
Mental health; Observatories; Communication; Memory; Reflexivity
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