Lembrar é resistir: uma etnografia com a AUSSMPE - Associação de Usuários dos Serviços de Saúde Mental de Pelotas

Abstract

This study presents the ethnography with the AUSSMPE - Associação de Usuários dos Serviços de Saúde Mental de Pelotas, based on the shared experiences, especially on the basis of the imagery produced together with this collective. Has as background the questioning about the permanence of the manicomial model for psychiatric hospitalizations in the Pelotas city, despite the psychiatric reform and the new guidelines of the Sistema Único de Saúde - SUS to advocate the mental health care in freedom. From the outspread of the AUSSMPE, perceiving them as a militant collective in the antimanicomial conflict, we understand the strenght relationships established in the field and, finally, we contribute to the composition of the memory of madness in this territory. The outspread showed important devices in the field, as: the music, the drawing, the photography and video/amateur experiment, skills about developed by the interlocutors, given as tools for ethnographic production.