[The modern psychiatric institution from an organizational perspective].

The essay analyzes the development of the modern psychiatric institution, represented most importantly by the emergence of the traditional asylum organization. In this type of institution, the process of behavioral control operates upon the same epistemological bases that fostered the bureaucratic model of domination - in other words, in the consonance with the instrumental-rational approach that legitimizes as key principles predictability and efficacy. In contrast, there has been recently been a break with this organizational type, expressed through the anti-asylum and anti-psychiatry movements, chiefly in the form on denunciations and criticisms of the contradictory 'telos' so evident at asylums and, secondarily, in the form of reformist proposals. Lastly, this change in paradigm has moved towards humanizing interactions between actors within the asylum model.