The shades of experiences of sexuality and gender dissident people and the production of mental health care in Psychosocial Care.
LGBTQIA+ people; sexual and gender minorities; mental health; psychosocial care; research-intervention.
This study aims to map the shades of experiences of dissident subjects of sexualities and genders and the interpellations and/or questionings promoted in the production of mental health care in devices of the Psychosocial Care Network (RAPS) in the city of Natal-RN. From the sixteenth century on, an epistemological and aesthetic regime began to be established in the modern and colonial world that contributed to the processes of criminalization and pathologization of LGTBQIA+ people, making life and mental health more precarious. The research participants are 10 people who identify with the LGBTQIA+ population and 59 CAPS workers and interns. The research-intervention used two group research-intervention devices, namely, the Psychosocial Support Group for the LGBTQIA+ Population and the Experimentation Workshops with RAPS workers. The analyzers produced with the Psychosocial Support Group concern family dynamics, situations of violence experienced, the exercise of religiosity/spirituality, and the fluidity of identities. Regarding the work with the Workshops, the analyzers indicate the invisibilization of LGTBQIA+ people in CAPS, the paradoxical character of the LGBT+ Health Policy, which despite being implanted, has not been properly implemented in terms of management and health care practices, the processes of pathologization of ways of life in the daily life of CAPS, and the ethical-political dimension of mental health care in the face of otherness. We mapped the effects of cisheteronormativity in the capture of subjectivities and mental health care and the lines of escape that are expressed in more singular and situated attitudes, gestures and care practices. We conclude that the viability of Psychosocial Care and the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform depends on the incorporation of the ways of life and suffering of people dissenting gender sexualities in the knowledge, practices and subjectivities in the RAPS.