Abstract

SOUZA, Luiz Gustavo Silva  and  PINHEIRO, Luciene Bittencourt. Therapeutic workshops in a Psychosocial Care Center: alcohol and other drugs. Aletheia [online]. 2012, n.38-39, pp. 218-227. ISSN 1413-0394.

This paper describes workshops conducted by psychologists towards drug dependent patients in a Brazilian Psychosocial Care Center. The workshops had the main objectives of fostering patients' expression, subjective construction and subjective change. We specially describe one session of a "Poetry Workshop". In this session, patients and psychologists read a poem together. The psychologists asked the patients to speak about the images and meanings of the poem and to link these images and meanings to their experiences of life. Seven patients participated in the session. They talked about various experiences: the need to use drugs to allow expression; the feelings of being lonely and of having low self-esteem; the need to search for support from the family and from the professionals of the Center. These participations allowed the psychologists to perform insight-oriented interventions. The discussion highlights that the workshops embody important political and clinical guidelines of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform.

Keywords : Drug dependency; Harm reduction; Psychosocial care center.

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