Severo, Ana Kalliny de SousaSilva, Renata Cristina Dantas da2020-07-132020-07-132020-02-13SILVA, Renata Cristina Dantas da. Educação popular em saúde mental e práticas integrativas grupais: amorosidade e empoderamento na produção de cuidado entre mulheres do Seridó Potiguar. 2020. 118f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Saúde Coletiva - Facisa) - Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde do Trairi, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2020.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/29590The mental health policy in Brazil institutes the need for a territorial and community based care practice that overcomes the mental asylum of isolation and exclusion from madness. In this context, the debate on women's mental health is still incipient, which impelled us to seek, through the exercise of collectivity and loving care in health practices, to expand the discussion of care, giving visibility to women in psychological distress, in their intersectionality of gender, race and class. Thus, the objective of the research is to analyze the repercussion of Group Integrative and Complementary Practices (PIC’s Group) among these women from a dance therapy group with users of the TERAPICS Space in Currais Novos-RN, Seridó Potiguar region. This is a qualitative study, using intervention research and a methodological perspective of Institutional Analysis and Popular Education, which dialogue with each other for starting from a transversal research practice, centered on the actions and speeches of the actors involved. We used the research diary, the documentary analysis and the Culture Circles, adapted to what we call Care Circles for the construction of the data that we analyzed through the eyes of the Implication Analysis. We understand that research and intervention are inseparable, and the field is made by the research subjects and also by the researcher. Thus, we raised some questions regarding the production of life in a group of women in psychological distress, based on actions based on the theoretical framework of popular education, in dialogue, in love and in encouraging autonomy. We encourage discussion about the impact of Group PICs and new modes of care in the relationship between women and mental health. From some concepts of Institutional Analysis, we present five analytical categories, organized based on the analyzers and the movement of analysis during the reading and transcription of the research diaries, the speeches of the participants and the theoretical framework used. We identified the potential of activities that promote interpersonal relationships and mutual support, as was the case for the dance group, providing new care configurations beyond health spaces, professionals and individual care. In addition, the challenge of deconstructing scenes of oppression and prejudice among women in Seridan society, which carry a legacy of racial, social and gender prejudice, especially in relation to mental illness. We consider that the Group PICs studied here, answer the research question and the objectives presented in relation to the care of oneself and the other. Institutional Analysis taught us about the importance of provoking instituting movements, of analyzing our implications in research and considering the field of the sensitive, without leaving with it, the ethical commitment of scientific production. Finally, aware of being unfinished beings and the need for continuous learning, we leave a loose thread for new productions of difference, subjectivity, health practices that are critical, political and reflective, and for expanding the possibilities of doing and accessing scientific research.Acesso AbertoMulheresSaúde mental coletivaPráticas integrativasGrupoEducação popularmasterThesisCNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA