Abstract

MENDONCA, Teresa Cristina Paulino de. Mental health workshops: report of an experience in hospital admission. Psicol. cienc. prof. [online]. 2005, vol.25, n.4, pp. 626-635. ISSN 1414-9893.

This present article deals with the workshop activities at the psychiatric entering. It starts with a brief explanation about psychiatric reform and tells about the changing of the psychotic in the social place, from a socially excluded person into a citizen. The therapeutic workshops along with the new modalities of attendance in the treatment of these citizens have both psychosocial and clinical roles. Their purpose is the expression of the singularity and subjectivity of the psychotic citizens, in a place of creation and reinvention of the daily routine at the psychiatric infirmary. This article will also deal with the positioning of the workshops coordinator, taking into consideration the characteristics of psychosis and the peculiarities in its handling. The experiences in the text and beauty parlor workshops, held at the Raul Soares Hospital, in Belo Horizonte, will be described.

Keywords : Mental health; Psychiatric infirmary; Therapeutic workshop.

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