Trajectory in narratives: experiences of mental illness and the city of Belo Horizonte/ Trajetoria em narrativas: loucuras e a cidade de Belo Horizonte, Brasil

• Published in: Ciência & saude coletiva 2018-04, Vol.23 (4), p.1201
• Main Authors: Arruda, Amanda Elias, Modesto, Ana Lucia, Dias, Claudio Santiago, Jr
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• ISSN: 1413-8123
• DOI: 10.1590/1413-81232018234.10722016

The article seeks to understand the relationships established between mentally ill patients cared for in the open community service network and the city of Belo Horizonte, state capital of Minas Gerais. It is understood that the experience of mental illness is capable of generating narratives that seek to give meaning to suffering and help people to negotiate everyday decisions. The biographical method was used for the construction of narratives of life trajectories of the three participants of the study. The biographical narratives revealed diverse experiences associated with mental illness as well as different meanings attributed to this condition. However, interestingly, these stories have a common pattern, often associated with marginal convivialities with the conventions of order, family and work. There is a break with the striking invisibility in asylums, as open services provide the social movement and manipulation of social codes, creating new territorial delimitations and interpretations. However, the need for empirical studies that address themes such as family relations, housing conditions and income of this population is paramount in order to broaden the right to health discussions for the right to housing, work, the right and to a place in the city. Key words Mental health, Narrative, Territory O artigo busca compreender as relacoes estabelecidas entre portadores de sofrimento mental assistidos em um servico aberto e comunitario e a cidade de Belo Horizonte (BH), capital do Estado de Minas Gerais. Compreende-se que a experiencia da loucura e capaz de gerar narrativas que buscam atribuir sentido ao sofrimento e auxiliam as pessoas a negociar as decisoes cotidianas. O metodo biografico foi utilizado para a construcao das narrativas de trajetorias de vida dos tres participantes do estudo. Cada pessoa atribuiu um sentido diferente a experiencia da loucura, contudo, percebe-se a existencia de trajetorias e sociabilidades marginais as convencoes da ordem, da familia e do trabalho. Verifica-se uma ruptura com a invisibilidade marcante nos manicomios, uma vez que os servicos abertos proporcionam a circulacao social e a manipulacao de codigos sociais que entremeiam os deslocamentos, criando novas territorialidades e codificacoes. Contudo, evidencia-se a necessidade de estudos empiricos que contemplam tematicas como as relacoes familiares e as condicoes de moradia e renda dessa populacao, para, entao, ampliar as discussoes do direito a saude para o dire