Sentidos sobre saúde-doença mental: uma interlocução com usuários que participam de um grupo terapêutico do CAPS

Abstract

This paper aimed to analyze the constructed meanings of health-mental illness participating in a therapeutic group of CAPS and its implications to the process of institutionalization of madness. To do so, was referenced in the contributions of Public Health, regarding the social production of health-disease process and also on the theoretical contributions of the field of Mental Health on the proposal of de-institutionalization of madness in the daily practice of care and attention to users. In addition to these bases, the study also has the frame of the Cultural-Historical Theory of Mind, with regard to their elaborations around the theme of the senses. Methodologically, the research was configured as a qualitative research. The study was conducted at the General CAPS II, Fortaleza-Ce, through contact with an institution of the therapy groups, the group of human flourishing. Contact with this group began in July 2010, primarily through the methodology of participant observation, in order to understand the mode of operation of the proposed therapy. Subsequently, we performed an Individual Semi-Structured Interview with one of the participants. Finally, a questionnaire was written in twelve people in the group, which also participated in a Culture Circle on the subject of this research. Material from these methodologies was recorded by audio-recorded, transcribed and analyzed using thematic analysis. As a result of this proposed analysis, three themes were categorized that stood out the speech of the participants, namely: the concept of madness and mental health-disease process, the stories and "stories" that explain the stock-suffering and production mental health, the construction of meanings and deinstitutionalization. The findings of this survey indicate that the madness and the health-mental illness find themselves immersed in a framework of great scientific uncertainty, which generates many possible meanings around the issue. The meanings of health and mental illness produced with participants circulated around opposing adjectives that indicated the presence of a remarkable notion of mental health as something unattainable, because it signifies the absence of disease. Since mental illness was perceived as a misfit, error, imbalance and accumulation of problems. On the other hand, participants also highlighted the existence of different modes of being and existence in the world as marks of singularities, which are often diagnosed as insane. They pointed out the need to trim live with these differences and their grieving process. As a result of the study, it is pointed towards the category as an essential tool to be valued and worked in the proposed institutionalization of madness in everyday mental health services.