Cartografias de um acompanhamento terapêutico: tecendo territórios possíveis para a vida

Abstract

This study cartographs the practice of Therapeutic Accompaniment (TA) as a clinical-political device in the production of subjectivation processes, based on an undergraduate internship experience in Psychology within the Psychosocial Care Network (RAPS). The research follows the trajectory of Flávia, a woman who has been linked to the RAPS for approximately twenty years and who, over the last four years, has been accompanied by a group of TA interns. Grounded in Deleuze and Guattari’s schizoanalysis and in cartographic methodology, the study rejects the logic of case study and representation, focusing instead on the follow-up of ongoing processes in the territory. The writing is composed through lived scenes of accompaniment, field diary records, and the shared construction of the patient’s narrative, understood as life in relation. Throughout the process, the effects of rigid lines — familial, institutional, and social — are analyzed, as well as the openings created by lines of flight that allow the emergence of other modes of existence. The concept of perforsomatics is introduced to describe the cartographer’s embodied performance in action, conceived as an aesthetic-political practice that integrates attention, presence, and implication in the territory. The study concludes that Therapeutic Accompaniment, articulated with cartography, affirms care in freedom and the invention of new existential territories.