Repetir, repetir – até ficar diferente: cartografia de um cuidado

Abstract

This article is the product of a research on mental health care in a Family Health Integrated Unit (USF) in the city of João Pessoa-PB. It occurred in the second half of 2015 and used cartography as a device for tracking events, affections and encounters serving as analyzers for the production of this care. Its micronarratives were produced by individual consultations, team meetings and home visits, which were debated on collective discussions and registered in a field diary. Its synthesis is given here, in a Narrative in Four Acts of a Care Occurrence produced, meant and captured by all those involved in the research. It is discussed, through it, the potential of Primary Care in Psychosocial Care Network (RAPS) and the still persistent misconceptions of the centrality of psychiatric knowledge-power in the reproduction of madhouse practices. It is concluded that immersion in an affective-existential territory expands and enriches both the production of care and health research.