AMORIM, Ana Karenina de Melo Arraes    SEVERO, Ana Kalliny de Sousa. Mental health, culture and art: discussing the social reinsertion of users of the psychosocial care network. Gerais, Rev. Interinst. Psicol. []. 2019, 12, 2, pp.282-299. ISSN 1983-8220.  https://doi.org/10.36298/gerais2019120207.

This study aimed to investigate the social reinsertion of users of the Psychosocial Care Network (Raps) through their participation in cultural and artistic initiatives existing in a capital city of northeastern Brazil. It is a qualitative research carried out in two stages: a descriptive exploratory stage in which, through semi-structured interviews, we mapped the forms of participation of users in cultural and artistic initiatives; and a second ethnographic stage, in which we accompanied the users who have claimed to participate in artistic and cultural activities in the initiatives they have cited. Data are discussed in thematic axes constructed collectively with the staff and users of the Raps, in order to produce a collective space for deinstitutionalization actions and reflection. It is defended the creation of spaces of coexistence and working with artistic and expressive initiatives, as well as the qualification of the Raps in order to include intersectorial strategies to promote the social reinsertion of users and the territorialization of care in therapeutic and institutional projects.

: Mental Health; Culture; Psychosocial Rehabilitation.

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