Desvelando as compreensões dos usuários dos CAPS de Fortaleza sobre a atenção em saúde mental

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes the understandings of psychosocial care centers (CAPS) users on mental health care, in Fortaleza Ceará, Municipality Health System, between 2005 and 2010. It outlines the understandings of psychosocial care centers users on mental health care, their trajectories in the Municipality Health System of Fortaleza, as well as the relationship among several points of the system and networks of community support. This study is based on the qualitative approach, in which the analytical framework, are the points of view of Paul Ricoeur´s Hermeneutics, grounded by the four essays evidenced in the Theory of Interpretation: the language as a discourse, the speech and the writing, metaphor and symbol, the explanation and understanding. It is grounded also on the mental health field theorists especially those implicated on mental health reform movement. The contents after the interviews, in the form of narrative texts. Were applied as well the Dialectical Hermeneutic Circle technique from the pluralistic constructivist method or the fourth generation; Guba e Lincoln (1989) with 12 respondents who participated in that intertwined as the circularity of the procedure takes place. The thematic categories used were: pathways to the theme of mental health care; the broken times, conflicts offerings and subjective needs of receiving, approximations and distances, between the tutelage and autonomy, absence and belonging – Opened and community closed CAPS; between stigma and care humanization. The main findings: CAPS are seen as living space able to establish emotional and social networks; stigma, prejudice and tutelage are still present in the services the families and the community; asylum based practices persist in the substitutives services; humanization of care increases access and connection to services; the trajectory of users in the SUS is due to their social and health needs; There is a distance between the understanding of users on mental health care and mental health policy proposed by the city of Fortaleza.