Educating for anti-asylum stance on the street: screens, knowledge, cultures, and care

Abstract

The process of psychiatric reform underway in Brazil has as one of its objectives to promote social transformations regarding the conception of madness. This narrative is report of the experience of a meeting of students, professionals from the healthcare network and from the university, made possible by the Education Program for Work in Health (PET-Saúde), in a Psychosocial Care Center for the care of people with troubling drug use, of the Brazilian National Health System (SUS). The proposal to think of the street, the culture, as a place of education also enables the enrollment of students in another social dimension, which causes displacements in traditional education. Culture is a powerful resource for inclusion. However, in order for cultural actions to be educational instruments in Mental Health and social inclusion strategies, the activities need to take place in the city’s spaces.