Approaches and detachments towards suicide: Analyzers of a psychosocial care service

Abstract

This article is the product of a research-intervention of cartographic perspective, whose objective was to investigate attention to suicide in a psychosocial care service in a municipality of São Paulo. The methodological trajectory was dynamically built, in which the final stages were projected based on the analysis of data produced in the initial stages. The instruments used initially were: study of medical records, analysis of care attendance flows, field journals, and semi-structured interviews. The analyses revealed a work process centered on the offer of psychiatric consultations and the medication of suffering, in which the care to suicide was little problematized. In a second moment, conversation groups were held with the workers to share the data and the analysis produced, and to discuss issues emerging from them. The interventions encouraged professionals to rethink their work process. The team resumed the spaces of permanent education, with the objective of analyzing the psychosocial care offerings they produced. From these meetings, they rethought an offer of care that valued listening and welcoming not only in the care to suicide but also to mental suffering. The research also generated a blog about suicide awareness.