POPULAR EDUCATION IN MENTAL HEALTH AND GROUP INTEGRATIVE PRACTICES: LOVE AND EMPOWERMENT IN THE PRODUCTION OF CARE BETWEEN SERIDÓ POTIGUAR WOMEN
Women. Mental health. Integrative Practices. Popular Education. Group
The mental health policy in Brazil establishes the need for a territorial and community-based care practice that goes beyond the madhouse logic of isolation and exclusion from madness. In this context, the debate on gender and mental health is still incipient, which drives us to seek, through the exercise of collectivity and lovingness in health practices, broadening the discussion on care with visibility in these women. Thus, the objective of the research is to analyze the repercussion of group integrative practices among women in psychological distress from a dance therapy group with users of the TERAPICS Space in Currais Novos-RN, Seridó Potiguar region. This is a qualitative study, using the intervention research and methodological perspective of Institutional Analysis and Culture Circles, which dialogue with each other by departing from a horizontal practice of research, centered on the actions and discourses of the actors involved. We use the field diary, document analysis and culture circles for data collection, which will be analyzed by the look of implication analysis, understanding that research and intervention are inseparable, and the field is made by the research subjects and also by researcher. Throughout the study, the participants signaled that the meetings that occurred between them during the therapeutic groups and outside them, were configured as spaces of life production and collective care, regardless of the presence of the health professional. Thus, we raise some questions regarding the production of life in a group of women in psychological distress, based on actions based on the theoretical framework of popular education, dialogue, love and encouraging the autonomy of the subjects. We arouse discussion about the impact of group integrative practices and new modes of care on the relationship between female and mental health.