MENTAL HEALTH, ART AND WRITING: CARTOGRAPHING AN EXPERIENCE

Introduction: The text discusses the author's experience, as a multidisciplinary resident in collective mental health, from the Writing Workshop of a Psychosocial Care Center II. It is about sharing the Ateliê as an anti-asylum clinical-political device, analyzing its effects and connectivity in the author's formative process. Objective: To empirically and theoretically present the Writing Workshop of a CAPS II as a clinical-institutional device in the field of anti-asylum mental health, of subjective and existential expansion, promoting health and an alternative to the medicalization of life. Method: Bibliographies from the field of anti-asylum mental health, intersectional studies, art and writing, written records and copyright images are used. The methodology is cartographic, being a researcher in direct relationship with the living field researched. Results: The Atelier is conceived as a space where each participant expresses their uniqueness, exploring the relationship with words, with art and creating possible worlds. The Brazilian Psychiatric Reform and its fight against the asylum and medicalization of life are also discussed, highlighting the importance of forging new symbolic and physical places in society for people who are considered crazy. Furthermore, the text discusses intersectionality and intersectorality in understanding the field of mental health. Art is seen as a device to expand the visibility of human experiences, subjectivities and existing perspectives. Conclusion: The art of writing is affirmed as a clinical-political device for expressing difference, rescuing subjects and their potential, as an alternative to the asylum and medicalization of life.