Oficinas terapêuticas em saúde mental: potencialidades e desafios

Abstract

Therapeutic workshops are considered very important mental health care practices that enhance treatment and, therefore, the study of this topic is necessary to deepen knowledge and contribute to greater attention regarding the installation of the asylum logic. We sought to carry out qualitative and bibliographical research, based on an expository and critical theoretical framework, with the aim of verifying the process of building therapeutic workshops in mental health, paying attention to the emergence of know-how that can become imposing and /or without truly therapeutic production. The main results found showed that, in fact, workshops can lose their therapeutic factor if the activities do not include the active participation of members, as well as when they are constituted as mechanical reproduction, with no space for creation and transformation. Another point found refers to the importance of multidisciplinarity, as professionals from multiple areas can contribute with different views and a variety of activities, which provide a better reception for subjects. The research also showed the need for constant questioning and problematization about therapeutic workshops, as they not only encompass mental health treatment issues, but also present political, social and cultural dimensions. Thus, it is considered important that studies on therapeutic workshops continue to be carried out, and it is essential that the Psychiatric Reform and, consequently, the Anti-Asylum Fight are permanent and those who are willing to work with the workshops, assume an ethical-political commitment against the various forms of oppression and violence, even the most subtle ones.