Dilemas e conflitos entre lógicas curativas diversas: discursos e práticas dos usuários do Centro de Atenção Psicossocial de Esperança-PB.

Abstract

After the recent psychiatric reform and the implementation of public policies that care for people with mental disorders, the Psychosocial Centra de AtençâoPsicossocial became one of the main devices of attention and care in this sector. A peculiarity observed in users of CAPS Esperança -PB, which is also resorting to other logical healing practices as mystical-religious and often claim to feel better than before. This research aims at investigating how to articulate the scientific and religious discourses in the strategies of users and families of people with mental disorders and the meanings they attributed to queries yards of Umbanda and/or chanters. We take as a theoretical representation theory of Moscovici for his dynamic vision of reality (2010), the field theory of Bourdieu (1982) to interpret the reactions of power between universes scientific and mystical-religious and Dürkheim (2000) interpretation of the sacred and profane, according to which social life is permeated with symbolism and that the sacred is the key element for achieving social control. Our study identifies the users' representations of mental illness and the opinions of neighbors and friends, as well as the assessments of medical practices and mystical-religious based on the interviews. The research reveals the mystical context / religious in which they are immersed and their possible positive effects on mental illness. The methodology used was the case study, based on a sample of 5. Being 2 users and 2 ex-users and 1 family. The techniques used were semi-structured interviews and talks in home visits for this specific purpose. The accounts show that satisfactory effects even though some medical practice there are gaps in the treatment, as well as culture shocks at different levels.