Abstract

AMORIM, Ana Karenina de Melo Arraes et al. Body practices and deinstitutionalization in mental health: Challenges and possibilities. Estud. psicol. (Natal) [online]. 2017, vol.22, n.1, pp. 39-49. ISSN 1413-294X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.22491/1678-4669.20170005.

This article deals with the part of a research that investigated the practices aimed at the deinstitutionalization process held in a psychiatric hospital of a city in northeastern Brazil, focusing on the body and bodily practices as a resource. Therefore, we carried out 30 interviews and 07 workshops of corporal practices with professionals involved and it was analyzed how these bodily practices could contribute to the deinstitutionalization work with the hospital residents. As a result, it is evident and discusses the importance of intra and extramural activities of the hospital be held to consider the trademarks of institutionalization in the bodies of both the residents and the professionals who assist them, so enhance the deinstitutionalization broadly and the construction of autonomy of the actors involved and care free.

Keywords : body; deinstitutionalization; mental health; psychiatric hospital.

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