Banca de DEFESA: DEYSE CRISTINA VALENCA GUEDES

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : DEYSE CRISTINA VALENCA GUEDES
DATE: 29/11/2022
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: UFRN
TITLE:

THERAPEUTIC ITINERARIES IN SEARCH OF THE GOOD LIFE: MENTAL HEALTH IN THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY "MENDONÇA DO AMARELÃO" (RN)

 

KEY WORDS:

Mental Health; Therapeutic Itineraries; Indigenous Peoples

PAGES: 147
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Psicologia
SUMMARY:

The present work assumes as objective to build interlocutions with the Potiguara Mendonça from the Amarelão Community (João Câmara/RN), aiming at understanding the therapeutic itineraries related to "mental health" that are produced among its inhabitants. To do so, this is a qualitative and exploratory study that is supported by decolonial studies, paying attention to the need to approach knowledge that has been invisibilized by colonialism. In this vein, we make use of an understanding of mental health that is based on the ethical-political principle of the good life - sumak kawsay in the Kíchwa, suma Qamaña in the Aymara - which raises the understanding of the human being as part of a broad community in which people not only relate to each other, but also to the elements of nature, the territory, and spirituality, in an interdependent relationship. From this reading, an indigenous "mental health" becomes possible through an alignment of the projects of good living of people and communities. The therapeutic itineraries, in turn, allow us to relate formal and informal care devices that follow in the paths of the subjects in dealing with health, in order to give visibility to the plurality of knowledge that access people and communities. We used as research tools a sociodemographic questionnaire, semi-structured interviews, and field diaries. Seven male and female residents of Amarelão (RN), over the age of 18 and recognized - by the community or by the territory's health agents - as people who are going through or have gone through situations that affect their mental health, participated in the study. The findings of the study show a non-insertion of the community in the SESAI, so that health care is established via SUS. We also noticed an incorporation of various fields of knowledge in the itineraries of the participants, who accessed devices such as ESF, psychiatric hospitals, and CAPS. At the same time, they report the incorporation of practices of community healers, as well as the use of the so-called "bush remedies", linked to the ancestral knowledge of the Mendonça people. The understandings of the good life produced give rise to a complementarity, reciprocity, and relationality that encompasses community bonds and relationships with the land woven by the participants. Far from a generalization that should be extended to the totality of the Mendonça people, the understandings that emerge here point to possible paths of well-living woven within Amarelão.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa ao Programa - 3060449 - ANA CAROLINA RIOS SIMONI - nullExterno à Instituição - BRUNO SIMÕES GONÇALVES - USP
Presidente - 1744558 - JADER FERREIRA LEITE