Uma dança que escorre: ações dançantes antimanicomiais com mulheres assistidas em um centro de atenção psicossocial (CAPS) em Fortaleza

Abstract

This research emerges from the need to investigate, develop and deepen understandings and articulations between dance, body and mental health in the context of a Psychosocial Care Center, in the city of Fortaleza, based on the experience carried out in 2017 and 2018 in a group with women. In this way, it presents as an object of study the implementation of dance as a proponent of anti-asylum actions with a group of women assisted in a Psychosocial Care Center (CAPS). Thus, it aims to present dance as a purposeful action capable of establishing other ways of life with women in psychosocial suffering. To this end, the dance experience developed at CAPS in the years 2017 and 2018 is revisited, using content in images and writings during the group's occurrence and conducting semi-structured interviews with women, service professionals and family members. The chosen methodology is constituted as a multiple approach that combines bibliographic research, cartography and field research. The entire construction of the research takes place from the understanding that the dance actions worked on and by the dancing body can stir up in these bodies other ways of perceiving and existing different from the intervention actions to which they were submitted, as well as the processes of subjectivation linked to mental health. Considering the CAPS as the locus of research, the crossing of knowledge and practices from the fields of dance, mental health and gender studies seek to address the complexity of the theme, without the illusion of exhausting it. In this way, it is intended to understand the relationships between the perception of bodily states and the construction of modes of existence as women in the context of an equipment of public mental health policies. The knowledge shared by women interacts with theoretical references, constituting themselves as possible intercessors in the foundation of the research, such as Katz and Greiner (2005, 2015), Pelbart (2018, 2019), Foucault (1997, 2014), Oliveira (2009, 2012), Amarante (1994, 1995, 2007), Santos (2011), among others. It is intended, therefore, to open spaces for investigative paths in dance about the processes of subjectivation and ways of life in the field of mental health and to contribute to the production of knowledge in which there is dialogue between art and health.