Uma experiência de uso da leitura como mediação terapêutica em um Centro de Atenção Psicossocial infanto-juvenil (CAPSi)

Abstract

The CAPSi, field of this study, is located on the southern edge of the city of São Paulo, a region that presents a high social vulnerability. As a multidisciplinary Public Service of mental health care for children and adolescents, it mainly proposes actions and activities in dimensions and perspective of the communities in order to reintegrate the users on social network. This research aimed to explain how the weekly workshop called "Reading Nook" held at this CAPSi, contributed to support participants anguish and psychic pain, trying mainly to show the construction of this clinical group device, the role of coordinator-mediator and the effects of reading/tale usage as a therapeutic mediator. Were also explored new ways of psychoanalytic therapy and were open new perspectives of institutional care in mental health field. This is a qualitative research of psychoanalytic theory, in group context with adolescents affected by various psychopathologies. The consultations were based on reading usage experience at times of crisis by anthropologist Michèle Petit, and concepts proposed by psychoanalysts D.W. Winnicott, René Kaës, Luis Claudio Figueiredo and other pertinent authors. The service benefited from clinical results in order to cope with various complaints, demands and existential questioning as it receives since individuals who suffer deep anguish related to fragmentation and annihilation of being until those who express diffuse feelings of lack of sense and inner void. In the clinical experiences at the workshop space, opportunities for self discovery were offered, allowing to young people more mobility in access to cultural experiences, which contributed for that their often terrible and threatening histories could be retold more calmly, in a setting protected by art/culture, metaphor, symbol and helping them to trigger intra-psychic and inter-subjective connection work