Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Marcos Mercadante (1960-2011) and his legacy to Brazilian psychiatry
2011; Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria; Volume: 33; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1590/s1516-44462011000300002
ISSN1809-452X
Autores Tópico(s)Schizophrenia research and treatment
Resumoe sua herança para a psiquiatria brasileiraSoon after lunch on July 2, as I prepared to go visit him, I received a phone call from one of his best friends, Maria Conceição do Rosário (Ceiça), telling that he was no longer with us.One moment later it was Jair Mari, responsible for bringing him to the Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), who sent a text message that said: "We lost Markinhos".Yes.On this day, Brazilian psychiatry, his friends, and especially his family lost one of their most loved and important members.Victim of an incurable and lethal cancer, announced about a year earlier, Marcos Tomanik Mercadante struggled relentlessly until yielding to the natural course of his disease.Today, the sorrow for his absence is still poignant, but we can already remember his life story with pride.Marcos chose a unique professional path that once revealed helps us to understand the great psychiatrist he came to be.Soon after graduating from the Medical School of the Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP) in 1983, Marcos went for a residency at the Enfance therapeutic community, headed by Oswaldo Dante Di Loretto, where he assisted children using principles focused on a social approach.Based on this experience, Markinhos advocated that medical residents in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) should learn how to play with children and develop their creative capacity as a part of their semiotical apparatus.He viewed, thus, his profession as an art.With these fundaments, Marcos developed a special ability to interview and to treat his patients that involved a proportional emphasis on both the healthy aspects of their personalities and their illness.Later, he came close to Stanislau Krinsky (according to Marcos, the first psychiatrist in CAP in Brazil) at the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa, where he became chief of the Child Psychiatry Service (1989-1995).In the same period (1988-1993), he got his master's degree in clinical psychology from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, under the supervision of Marília Ancona Lopez.I entered Marcos' professional history as his doctorate supervisor (1995-1999).After learning in depth about the role of social and psychological aspects in the origin of mental disorders, he wanted to conduct his doctoral studies based on the medical model.In
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