Stories in Mental Health

“The family must have the commitment, society has to have this commitment. It has to deal with the other, with the different and we still have the cultural element. Society has to be prepared for this change. Until today, she has only thought about exclusion. So that's the challenge. There is an institutional practice, of public policy, and there is also a cultural practice that we have to build. Then the media has a fundamental role to bring, rescue and reflect that the person with a mental disorder has feelings, has suffering, is lucid, that's why they need help”. With this testimony, the psychiatrist Prof. doctor Ronaldo Ribeiro Jacobina, from the Federal University of Bahia, presents the current situation of patients with mental disorders in Brazil today. He attended the conference Stories in Mental Health, held by the Psychology course and by NAPP, on May 18, at the Academic Unit Brotas.

The opening was attended by the general director of Bahiana, Prof. Dr. Maria Luisa Soliani, who told a little about the relationship of her history as a psychiatrist, relating it to the history of mental health in Bahia. Paulista, the director of Bahiana came to Salvador after completing his residency in psychiatry. “Each one of us, with our own history, deepens a great mighty river that flows into this immense thing that is the sea, here in this case, the history of mental health”, concluded Soliani.

“Historically, here at Bahiana, we have been trying to bring discussions around mental health, at least once a year, in an institutional way. We have a history with this. Because we understand that it is not only a matter of technical training, the role of a higher education institution, but it also has a role of political training and talking about mental health and mental illness, today, in Brazil, it is to discuss a little the political position”, said the coordinator of the Psychology course, Mônica Daltro.

In addition to professors from the Psychology course, the coordinator of the Psychopedagogical Care Center (NAPP), Angélica Mendes, the psychologist and psychoanalyst of the NAPP, Wagner Angeli, coordinator of the event, were also present.

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in your lecture stories of madness, Jacobina traced a history of the emergence of insane houses, asylums and sanatoriums to the present time, when the construction of a new model based on the insertion of patients with mental disorders into society is discussed, removing them from the confinement of long-term hospitalizations . “The model is based on the idea of ​​caring without excluding. Therefore, leaving the asylums does not mean abolishing hospitalization, it means that, due to an acute situation, the person receives care for as long as he needs and that he is no longer deposited in the institutions”, he adds.

With the realization of the Practical in Mental Health table, coordinated by the professor of Bahiana, Rafael Leite, in which the guests were able to discuss their outpatient clinical experiences, in the hospital and in the CAPS . Occupational therapist Tâmara Grimaldi presented her experience at the psychosocial clinic in Salvador and São Felipe, the psychologist and former student of the Bahiana, Gerfson Oliveira spoke about the management and functioning of CAPS ad (alcohol and other drugs) Gregório de Matos, located in Terreiro de Jesus, on the premises of the former Faculty of Medicine of UFBA; the psychologist Carolina Severo, graduated by BAHIANA he presented his experience at the La Borde clinic, in France, articulated with his current experience at the Clínica Hólos, in Salvador, and at the ADAB clinic. The resident in Clinical Psychology and Mental Health at UFBA/SESAB/HJM, Priscylla Guedes gave a statement about in-service training. In the morning shift, the event also included the experience report of the 10th semester psychology student, Eduardo Pitanga, an intern at Hospital Juliana Moreira and Hospital de Custody and Treatment (HCT).

In the afternoon, the program began with the table Transversal Perspectives on Mental Health, coordinated by prof. Wagner Angeli and had the participation of the anthropologist from Bahia, Fábio Lima, who spoke about the relationship between mental health and Candomblé. The psychologist at the Hospital Juliano Moreira, Fabiana Kubiak, also participated, dealing with transversal practices and knowledge in the Mental Health network, with a view to empowering the user. Then, the Bahian anthropologist Fábio Lima spoke about the relationship between Mental Health and Candomblé. The table was also attended by Renilda and Dionaldo, representatives of the Ambulant Metamorphosis Association –AMEA Bahia, Association of Users and Families of Mental Health Services, who reported a little about the history of the Anti-Asylums Fight in Bahia and invited the students to participate in the V Parada em Movimento do Pride Crazy, at Barra lighthouse, the following day.

In the late afternoon, psychologist and musician Lucas Duque Artigas, graduated from BAHIANA, held a music workshop with the participation of everyone, and the event ended with the presentation of Bando FLORES DA MASSA, which was born at the Hospital Juliano Moreira hospital from the music workshop three years ago.