História e memória da criação de um centro de convivência

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: To tell, through oral history, the history of the creation of the Centro de Convivência Arthur Bispo do Rosário. METHODS: Qualitave study, with data collection through oral history, narrated by people who witnessed or parcipated in the events. The interviews were conducted with five workers from the Centro de Convivência, recorded, transcribed and analyzed. For analysis, the interviews were divided into categories organized by coherent order, constructing a narrative of the history of the creation of the Centro de Convivência Arthur Bispo do Rosário. RESULTS:Inspired by the ideal of the Psychiatric Reform and the consolidaon of alternave services from other cities, the team from Instuto Raul Soares began the creation of Centro de Convivência in 1992 within the hospital's physical space. Art and culture production workshops were held with instuonalized patients. Despite the different logic, the ideals of the psychiatric hospital permeated the functioning of the Centro de Convivência Arthur Bispo do Rosário, which was only municipalized in 2000 and linked to the Eastern Sanitary District, opening to the community and consolidating itself as a substute service in mental health. CONCLUSIONS: With the debate about the Psychiatric Reform, the Centro de Convivência Arthur Bispo do Rosário was created, but it failed to consolidate the principles of the anti-asylum fight while it remained linked to the psychiatric hospital. Tradional psychiatry and the asylum model offered initial resistance to the consolidation of the service, which was only fulfilled with its municipalizaon eight years later.