Teatro e saúde mental: uma investigação que relaciona autonomia, poder contratual e teatro do oprimido no contexto de um CAPS I

Abstract

The aim of this study is to describe and analyze how the therapeutic theatre workshop, guided by the Theatre of the Oppressed's theory, influences on users' contractual power and autonomy from a CAPS I. We have carried out, initially, a literature review, which contextualizes the theoretical and practical bases of the Brazilian psychiatric reform, where we present the first experiments with art and the current form as this work more specifically the theatre, has been used in several Mental Health devices in the country. Then, we have outlined the Theatre of the Oppressed's methodology, Augusto Boal and his contributions to the Mental health field, to later perform a dialogue between this theory and the Pedagogy of the oppressed by Paulo Freire. Then, we present the work of drama therapy workshop, held in CAPS I of Puerto Real, in the State of Rio de Janeiro. We carry out filming in this workshop for seven meetings and a focus group. From there we conducted a thematic analysis of the ideas that we have seen of this material. This analysis revealed that the experience with the theatre workshop has helped in the treatment, providing reflections and actions that could be related to an increase of autonomy and power.