Oficina expressão do sensível pais e filhos: uma abordagem junguiana da arte na saúde mental através do mapa astral no CAPS-i da cidade de Pelotas

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate how art influences to strengthen the emotional bonds of users of Psychosocial Care Center of Children and Youth (Centro de Atenção Psicossocial Infantojuvenil – CAPS-i) in Pelotas, a Southern Brazilian town. The CAPS-i is a public institution of mental health service maintained by Pelotas’ City Hall whose mission is to develop a supported work on new guidelines for compliance with children and young people community suffering from severe mental disorders. This work was developed within art workshops of CAPS-i, with a qualitative approach, through artistic and corporal practices. It was used a cartographic method, which led not only to analyze the data produced by users of the service in a rhizomatic (Gilles Deleuze) way, but also to follow investigative processes and the very implications of the researcher. Data collection began in the first half of 2015 through interviews, observations were carried out in the Reference Centers for Mental Health of Rio Grande do Sul (Centros de Referência em Saúde Mental do Rio Grande do Sul). This production occurred between September to December of 2015 by the workshops Pandora's Box and Minotauro, in which the myths talk about feelings, a chance for children to try them in a playful way through body language. The workshop Imagens do Inconsciente (Images of the Unconscious) enabled a study about mandalas and astrology which promoted subjectivities in the group, experienced through body, a symbolic language of affection. To carry out these workshops I contemplated the knowledge of Carl Gustav Jung and Nise da Silveira, authors who for a long time investigated the relationships between the processes taking place in the unconscious and the feelings of people in psychological distress. João Francisco Duarte Jr. is attentive to the importance of a sensitivity education. He reforces that a society cannot be focused only on pure reason; the artistic experience enables the creation of broader knowledge and expertise related to human feelings. Studies of Felix Guattari contributed to think the workshops in order to add knowledge and expertise through a diverse group of mothers and children. The research resulted in the creation of the “Expressão do Sensível, Pais e Filhos" (Expression of the sensitive: parents and children) workshop already under development in the CAPS-i. The research results contribute to rethink the care practices in the area of mental health, in addition to reaffirming the art as promoting overall health, body, mind and spirit.