A (loucura) entre parênteses: jogos goianos da saúde mental como dispositivo de desinstitucionalização e reinvenção da saúde

Abstract

This research focuses on the Goiás Mental Health Games (JGSMental), a sports cultural event collectively constructed and self-managed by users, family members, students, and workers of the Goiás Psychosocial Care Network (RAPS). The event traces a path of protagonism from a deinstitutionalizing and anti-manicomial perspective of mental health care. The research question is: how do the JGSMental contribute to the mental health care process? The general objective was to analyze the collective construction of the JGSMental as a component of mental health care, based on the perception of users, RAPS workers, and Game organizers, as social actors involved. This qualitative research is characterized as a case study. The total sample consisted of five interviewees: 1 coordinator, 2 RAPS workers, and 2 users of mental health services. The semi-structured interview was used as a data collection tool. The data were analyzed using the content analysis technique. The results show that the Games' focus is on user participation, with an emphasis on horizontal relationships, mobilization, network articulation, self-management of health and life, circulation in public spaces, visibility, and the Anti-Manicomial Struggle as a political stance. Reflecting on the formation in the JGSMental construction and experimentation spaces from the collective organization itself as a therapeutic act brings us closer to the possibility of (re)inventing strategies for mediating the relationship with madness.