THE AESTHETICS OF THE OPPRESSED IN MENTAL HEALTH CARE IN BRAZIL
Theater of the Oppressed; Aesthetics of the Oppressed; Art; Health Care; Mental Health.
The aesthetics of the Oppressed is an elaboration by Augusto Boal, a Brazilian playwright who systematized this artistic-political proposal from the formulations with the Theater of the Oppressed. This methodology consists of the scenic dialogue that problematizes oppressive social relations. The peculiarity of this method consists of three transgressions: 1- the division between stage and audience; 2 - between show and real life; 3 - between artists and non-artists. In the 2000s, with the implementation of the Brazilian National Mental Health Politic (PNSM), the Ministry of Health established a partnership with the CTO-RJ to train health workers in the use of this methodology. The research proposed here has the general objective of analyzing the use of Aesthetics of the Oppressed in Mental Health Care in Brazil. Specific objectives: a) to identify the social actors who use or have used the Theater of the Oppressed as an instrument of mental health care; b) describe activities developed in Mental Health Policies with this aesthetic perspective; c) discuss subjective productions of health work from the theoretical-practical thinking of Augusto Boal; d) promote critical reflection on the use of Aesthetics/Theatre of the Oppressed for health care; e) to build a theoretical-practical framework about Aesthetics in the Oppressed in the field of Mental Health. This study has as an epistemological reference the thought of Boal, which seeks to strengthen the culturally oppressed, manipulated or excluded groups and peoples, building a proposition for human development focused on the analysis of social conflicts from the crossings and flows of intensities produced in art. The methodological procedures adopted consist of interventions with self-administered online questionnaires, available on social networks, and individual interviews with professionals from the health network who use or have used the Theater of the Oppressed as a work tool, in addition to project managers and linked to the CTO-RJ, when in partnership with MS. The self-administered questionnaires were descriptively analyzed and the individual interviews proposed a dialogic conversation/relationship between researcher-researched. From these instruments, it was possible to outline four themes that generated analysis: 1) Project Theater of the Oppressed in Mental Health; 2) CAPS and the Psychiatric Reform; 3) Art and Mental Health; 4) Professional paths and the Theater of the Oppressed. Performances with this theatrical methodology were observed in the promotion and attention to mental health and that the training process in Theater of the Oppressed in Mental Health favored processes of creation of care in freedom advocated in the Psychiatric Reform.The support to the worker, through supervision, material subsidies, theoretical and practical support proved to be fundamental for the creation of mental health practices based on the principles and foundations of the anti-asylum fight and the PNSM. From this investigation it was possible to understand the Aesthetics of the Oppressed as a precursor of the Anti-asylum Struggle, thinking an analogy with its transgressions to the traditional theater and with that, verifying its anti-asylum principles, libertarian and focused on human rights, for another society where asylums do not fit , does not fit the asylum mode.