Influences of psychiatric reform for the construction of neuronutrition in Brazil: bibliographic review

Abstract

Objective: To reflect on the contributions and influences of the Brazilian psychiatric reform for the construction of neuronutrition from the perspective of mental health promotion. Bibliographic review: The study was developed through a bibliographic review with a theoretical-reflective approach, so It is understood that the process of resignification of the subject in psychic suffering from the sociopolitical movement of psychiatric reform demanded new health care aimed at the least possible invasive methods for the treatment of psychopathologies. Thus, over time, neuronutrition was developed, contributing to the production of mental health care, relating eating behavior and the influences of nutrients to the improvement of emotions, neurocognition, mood and in the treatment of mental disorders. Final considerations: Therefore, the Brazilian psychiatric reform, based on its process of deconstruction-construction-reconstruction of the psychiatric model, enabled the performance and insertion of the nutritionist in the field of mental health.