A group device as a tool for affiliation to the health system

Abstract

The objective of this article is to communicate results, readings and reflections produced along the analysis of a case of inclusion through group devices alternative to psychiatric logics, in the Primary Health Care Area. In the beginning, we describe the space, its origins, problems to which it responds and purposes, according to the interviewees´opinions. It includes some theoretical basis which gives occasion to think it in relation to soft technologies and live work in health. The following sections focus on the investigation of the processes of aid coordination: the first, in terms of planning and its interweaving with the management; the next one tries to locate the coordination expressed in transitions –as paths for users– between the processes of singular attention and the collective space, as a production of transitional spaces in which individual and device therapeutic projects overlap; the latter consists of a digression, necessary, relating to intersections between technologies, institutional arrangements and devices. The final considerations include a reflection about micropolitical and the conditions of possibility of health production.