Memória e resistência de um coletivo de saúde mental

Abstract

The affirmation of the memory of groups disqualified by the great narratives is a key element in the process of confronting human rights violations that occur daily in Brazil, especially in the mental health field. To revisit the history of groups through other lenses, enhances new debates to understand the processes of resistance to the asylum captures of life, especially in the current scenario of a psychiatric "counter-reform" and a "remanicomialization" in this field. Against this scenario arises the present research work with the Potiguar Association of Plural (known as PLURAL - Associação Potiguar Plural), a collective of mental health interested individuals in the City of Natal - RN. In this cartographic research with the collective, we seek to map processes of resistance to asylum life forms, through the production of narratives of PLURAL participants' memories, in an attempt to tell their story, mapping points of tension, knowledge production and resistance in the potiguar mental health's. As a result, was produced collectively a narrative about the PLURAL, from its foundation until the present moment, as well as the mapping of three lines of analysis about the production of resistances within the collective: based on the testimony of the asylum memories; the production of care networks among the members of the collective; and the formation of future professionals, who are interning or experiencing the grouping characteristics of the PLURAL during their academic formation. These lines pointed out how the memory of violations can, through collective agency, become raw material for actions in the field of mental health, both in the production of care networks and in the formation of future professionals, sensitive and involved in the care of freedom. We conclude that memory, testimony, and collectivity are pillars in the development of resistance practices in the field of mental health, demonstrating the transformative potential of reality, starting from the protagonist form and solidarity relationships, in the affirmation and production of life.