ENTRE FIOS E DESAFIOS: O MOVIMENTO DA SUBJETIVIDADE DE MULHERES EM SOFRIMENTO MENTAL

Abstract

This research aimed to understand the subjective configurations of the suffering of women assisted at a Psychosocial Care Center (CAPS), emphasizing processes of change resulting from their participation in an a therapeutic workshop with educational purposes. This study uses the Theory of Subjectivity, within a cultural-historical perspective, inspired by the principles established by the Qualitative epistemology, as its theoretical framework, and uses the constructive-interpretative method proposed by González-Rey. The Theory of Subjectivity allows for understanding the subjective senses and subjective configurations that constitute human psychological processes produced in social spaces. The chosen framework favors the articulation between scientific research and professional practice, emphasizing human relationships and subjective productions, which go beyond that which is explicit in institutional contexts and professional practice. Six women with mental distress, undergoing treatment and enrolled in a Psychosocial Care Center; three family members, and seven health service professionals participated in this study. To this end, the researcher created a therapeutic workshop that served as a space and instrument for inducing dialogue and bonds among the participating women. Other complementary techniques such as interviews, conversational dynamics, sentence completion and unwritten expressive instruments were also used. All these resources aimed to favor dialogic moments that would provide the opportunity to address subjects relevant for the development of the study. The results are presented in three thematic axes: the mental health policy social movement present in the social subjectivity of the research participants; the subjective configurations and female subjectivation processes present in these women’s environment; and threads and shreds: weaving Nina's network of subjective configurations. The study concludes that the actions and relationships established through the workshop provided the opportunity for the participants to become the protagonists in their own lives, developing autonomy to face the adversities caused by the damage generated in the process of becoming mentally distressed.