“There is space, but at the same time there isn’t”: the care process analysis in psychopharmacological treatment in mental health

Abstract

Considering the challenges to psychosocial rehabilitation, this study was aimed at understanding the perspective of users and workers regarding psychopharmacological treatment. This is a qualitative study, which interviewed six providers and ten users of the Psychosocial Care Center of a municipality in the north of Minas Gerais. The transcripts were treated in Coding Cycles and examined by Discourse Analysis. Three categories related to the micropolitical dimension of care were defined: the institutional flowchart; the intercessory spaces; and the subjective production of the agents. Dissonances were revealed between statements alluding to the psychosocial care policy, with the competition of emancipatory and restrictive conceptions and technologies of care. The importance of the micropolitical analysis of care in psychopharmacological treatment was verified, favoring the processes of contractuality, protagonism, and user autonomy.