O ENCONTRO DA LOUCURA COM A CIDADE: A ARTE COMO CAMINHO PARA A LIBERDADE

Abstract

In view of the need to provide resources for people with mental disorders to make use of their right to participate in the city, historically denied with isolation in psychiatric hospitals, the investigation was coined from the question of whether urban interventions through art, in their various forms, contribute to this objective. As this is a multidisciplinary work, based on an expanded clinical concept in Psychology, it is supported by diverse contributions ranging from the anti-asylum literature and the discussion of the psychologist's role in the context of collective mental health. The target population of this study were users of two psychosocial care centers in João Pessoa, Paraíba, who are engaged in the relationship with art as a therapeutic resource. Thus, three stages of research were carried out, the first focused on the bibliographic survey, the second on collecting field records through participatory qualitative research, and the third on data analysis. The semi-structured interviews with public mental health service workers and users were audiovisually recorded, and the compilation was arranged in a documentary format. As a result, there were strong indications that the different experiences with art can offer more spaces for sociability, production and cultural intervention, allied to the purpose of serving the meeting between madness and city.