Abstract
This project proposes a theoretical study on the analyzes by Michel Foucault (1998, 2000, 2006, 2010), Erving Goffman (2008), and Franco Basaglia (2001) with regard to psychiatric institutions, highlighting the central themes, such as power, institutional discipline, control mechanisms, processes of normalization of conduct, production of subjectivity, among others. Our goal is, through a…