Phew!the conferences on mental health and youth organized by the youth councils of Uviéu and Asturies filled the old prison of the Asturian capital this Thursday with proposals, reflections and artistic intervention. Also from the attending public.
The theatrical part was carried out by the TOC-HADAS collective with a performance at the top of the prison about restraints, practices theoretically extinct or on the verge of extinction after the end of the asylums and the psychiatric reform of the 80s, but which continue to abound in the treatment of people with mental health problems.
The reflections were previously carried out by Silvia Parrabera García, Tanit Monedero Díaz, Diana Frisuelos Barbería and Irene Hernandez Arqueromental health professionals who work on new therapies and ways of working based on greater horizontality and less dependence on psychotropic drugs.
Silvia Parrabera García presented the intervention through Open Dialogue, a methodology born in the 80s in Finland, and which, thanks to its success, is rapidly spreading throughout the world. In Open Dialogue, the person with a crisis is not treated in isolation, but in a group in which other close people, friends or family, as well as therapists also participate. Parrabea highlighted that despite the difficulties, “we are managing to integrate it into the public system.”
We do not talk about people without people, this is the maxim of Open Dialogue
The intervention tries to be carried out as soon as possible and, an important detail, preferably at home instead of in the hospital or health center.
You never talk about the person in crisis without the person in front of you. We do not talk about people without people, this is the maxim of Open Dialogue, which tries to avoid quick diagnoses and the lifelong pigeonholing of the person who has suffered a crisis that may be temporary and temporary. The psychologist Tanit Monedero is another of the therapists who is incorporating these techniques into her work despite the difficulties that these methodologies often have in being admitted into mental health systems more accustomed to prescribing than listening.
Irene Hernández advocated for “politicizing the discomfort” and highlighted the importance of abandoning individualistic approaches that do not take into account the contexts of people and the social problems that surround them: racism, machismo, homophobia, precariousness… “Instead of considering that it is something genetic or individual, we need to think about the social origins of the discomfort” added Frisuelos along the same lines.
The four professionals, despite being part of different schools or currents, also agreed on the need to reduce the commitment to psychotropic drugs to emphasize intervention methods that are horizontal, involve the community and favor the autonomy of people. , and not their conversion into dependent beings for life.
The days go by how to make all this possible. Phew! that close this Friday with the concerts of Trezze and Valois.
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