A prática do acompanhamento terapêutico como estratégia de expansão territorial: Uma incursão cartográfica

Abstract

This article intends to discuss the therapeutical accompaniment practice considering its territorial dimensions within the work done at a Centre for Psycho-social Attention. The territory will be analyzed taking into account the concept used by the Psychiatric Reformation, along with its particularities and possible interactions with other theoretical concepts, such as the one enlighten by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. We intend to map the encounters produced upon the relations between the users, the services and the city's territory, bringing up devices that can contribute with different references, in a sense that new relations can be enabled. Two experiences are described, to illustrate that the interaction between the territory and the construction of a different network references in the city, is connected with the creation of existential territories beyond the logic applied at mental hospitals, establishing a privileged strategy for un-institutionalization.