Repensando a Saúde Mental da Enfermagem: do Invisível ao Estrutural

Gracio Marinho Sobral Santos

doi:10.1590/SciELOPreprints.14808

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Gracio Marinho Sobral Santos Anhembi Morumbi University https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8762-7155
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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.14808

Keywords:

Mental Health, Nursing, Burnout Syndrome, Depression, Working Conditions, Health Policy, Patient Safety

Abstract

Nursing in Brazil represents the largest contingent of the healthcare workforce, yet its mental health remains invisible in institutional policies and decision-making processes. Psychological distress is often naturalized as individual fragility, when in fact it arises from structural factors such as long working hours, multiple employment bonds, sleep deprivation, understaffed teams, and continuous exposure to human suffering. This theoretical-propositional essay presents an original methodology the Architecture of Care, composed of the pillars Lex Justa, Hospitium Mentis, and Solidaritas Clinica as an institutional response to occupational distress. The analysis highlights burnout syndrome and depression as central expressions of nursing mental illness, discusses ethical and health implications, and proposes practical guidelines for prevention, patient safety, and the sustainability of Brazil’s Unified Health System (SUS).

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Author Biography

Gracio Marinho Sobral Santos, Anhembi Morumbi University

Gracio Marinho Sobral Santos is a Brazilian polymath author and researcher whose work bridges neurodiversity, affective neuroscience, sensory ethics, and the philosophy of language. He created NeuroLumen Therapy, a sensory‑first, humanistic framework supporting neurodivergent cognition through neuroaffective listening, perceptual clarity, and narrative reconstruction. His approach reframes autism and ADHD as authentic, structurally coherent expressions of human diversity that require dignity‑centered support rather than normalization.

His first book, O Sistema C.I.C (Individual Credit Control), published in 2009, anticipated—sixteen years ahead—the convergence of programmable digital currencies, ubiquitous biometric identity, and algorithmic governance of credit and behavior, establishing him as a visionary author uniting literature, science, and critical analysis to foresee transformations shaping the contemporary world.

ISBN‑registered works

O Sistema C.I.C: Individual Credit Control — ISBN 978-65-01-80970-0
Mente em Movimento: Escuta Neuroafetiva e Terapia NeuroLumen — ISBN 978-65-01-78393-2 (print) / 978-65-01-78289-8 (digital)
The Brain in Motion: Neuroaffective Listening and NeuroLumen Therapy — ISBN 978-65-01-82630-1
A Invisibilidade da Saúde Mental da Enfermagem no Brasil — ISBN 978-65-01-88535-3

Academic background

Postgraduate degrees in: