"Amassado, apertado e pincelado com as cores da primavera": identidades em (re)construção em uma oficina de produção artesanal nos centros de atenção psicossocial

Abstract

This research was carried out in the workshops of "paper design effect" (EP). This is an art project and income generation developed by the Swiss Institute Basaglia and facing users and families linked to Psychosocial Care Centers in the city of Rio de Janeiro (CAPS). The observation allowed me to identify the construction process (and / or reconstruction) identity from the production of handicrafts in paper mache these workshops. The EP project, conceived by the demands of anti-asylum movement struggle, promotes a dialogue with the guiding principles of sociocultural dimension of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform, from the idea of transformation of the social imaginary related to "madness" and the experience of the subject in "psychological distress", mainly by encouraging artistic and cultural expressions. Standing issues related to the concepts of "distinction", Pierre Bourdieu, and "uniqueness" that Nathalie Heinich develops from Simmel, it was realized that "making art / craft" of participants EP feasible changes on the social representations users about the CAPS network (re) configuring identities. These questions allow us to reflect on the set of ideas and principles, that the movement of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform have as guidance for their actions and the meanings attributed to art in mental health.