Poetic confluences: poetry, education and care in psychosocial care devices in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Abstract

The study aims to narrate the experience of the confluence of poetry, training and care in psychosocial care facilities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Based on the concepts of Ailton Krenak, reflections were constructed on ways of training and caring that are more closely allied to community life. The results were presented in the following narratives: ‘Poetry, the healing of the word’, which showed how the poetry circle gave back the right of speech to people in psychological distress; ‘Palace therapy’, which revealed the importance of the collective subject and the (re)occupation of the territory; and ‘Poetry as the invention of colorful parachutes’ as a care strategy. Poetry served as a strategy for the constitution of collectives, revealing the importance of being, caring and forming, based on the principle of the right to the word and the territory.