Narrações, encontros, cri(ações) com territórios existenciais : artesania de cuidado por práticas desinstitucionalizantes

Abstract

This dissertation tells stories of encounters, in particular the deterritorializing kind. Furthermore, it brings writings, made with and about care, through the connection with experiences of madness and marginality and people who, because they escaped the norm, have been subjected to oppression, imprisonment and hospitalization. Bodies that break loose and are captured are punished in many dimensions, taken away from the territory and the right to freedom. How can we create an intervention that is able to weave existential territories with these people? We’ve used as a methodological strategy three different approaches from the Autonomous Management of Medication (GAM): laterality, co-management and narratives, the three of them working as facilitators in the production of health. The possibilities of inhabiting spaces of existence, building bonds and partnerships with the world can become expressions of care. In this sense, the territory becomes the question and, above all, the subversive possibility of re(existing). Moreover, we understand that workers within the Psychosocial Attention Network (RAPS) are also agents that circulate ways of thinking about and practicing care, subjectivity, health and clinic. Between many wanderings, we’ve met and walked side by side with them, in this process that is narrative as much as interventive. We’ve taken this posture, this way of weaving territories, as the ethos of this map, traced with and by desire and affection.