As artes visuais no contexto da saúde mental

Abstract

This research analyzed how activities in Visual Arts can help in the treatment of people with mental disorders. It verified how Art can contribute to the process of rehabilitation and inclusion of these individuals in the social space and how it promotes the improvement of emotional balance and, also, how the use of these techniques can raise self-esteem and how it can minimize the negative effects of the disease. For this, a brief history was made about Art Therapy and the precursors of this technique in Brazil, among them Osório César and Nise da Silveira, psychiatrists who used the plastic arts to help the treatment of people with mental disorders. He also approached how the concept of Madness was treated during time, and along with how the ways of dealing with people with mental suffering evolved. He described how the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform favored the deinstitutionalization and favored the creation of CAPS responsible for receiving patients with mental disorders, helping them in their social and family integration and offering them medical and psychological care. Finally, it presented an example of artistic activities applied to beneficiaries of CAPS of Ibirité.