(Re) thinking urban mental health from the periphery of São Paulo in times of the COVID-19 pandemic
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(Re) thinking urban mental health from the periphery of São Paulo in times of the COVID-19 pandemic. / Brown, Cristobal Abarca; Szabzon, Felipe; Bruhn, Lenora; Cabrini, Daniela Ravelli; Miranda, Elisangela; Gnoatto, Jacqueline; Albertin, Paula de Vries; Santana, Geilson Lima; Andrade, Laura Helena.
In: International Review of Psychiatry, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2022, p. 78-88.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - (Re) thinking urban mental health from the periphery of São Paulo in times of the COVID-19 pandemic
AU - Brown, Cristobal Abarca
AU - Szabzon, Felipe
AU - Bruhn, Lenora
AU - Cabrini, Daniela Ravelli
AU - Miranda, Elisangela
AU - Gnoatto, Jacqueline
AU - Albertin, Paula de Vries
AU - Santana, Geilson Lima
AU - Andrade, Laura Helena
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Urban mental health studies traditionally search for causal relationships between elements of the city and the prevalence of mental disorders. This paper discusses the importance of (re)thinking the ‘lived urban experience’ from the perspective of city residents about how the immediate environment affects their mental health and how people cope with inequalities. A participatory-action research was implemented in a peripheral area of São Paulo – Brazil, in which volunteers from the territory made phone calls to neighbours to provide emotional support during the COVID-19 pandemic. Weekly supervision meetings were held between volunteers and researchers to discuss the experiences shared by community counterparts. Narratives have shown that the lived experience in the city is mediated by multiple layers of ‘urban insecurities’. These difficulties pressured people to organise and resist in face of pervasive inequalities as well as to respond to unfolding experiences of social suffering. We highlight the potential of participatory methodologies to observe the ways in which subjects face their structural issues and the suffering that emerge in these circumstances. The understanding of how these conflicts are lived at a subjective level can support studies that are wondering about the mechanisms of how social conflicts ‘get under the skin’.
AB - Urban mental health studies traditionally search for causal relationships between elements of the city and the prevalence of mental disorders. This paper discusses the importance of (re)thinking the ‘lived urban experience’ from the perspective of city residents about how the immediate environment affects their mental health and how people cope with inequalities. A participatory-action research was implemented in a peripheral area of São Paulo – Brazil, in which volunteers from the territory made phone calls to neighbours to provide emotional support during the COVID-19 pandemic. Weekly supervision meetings were held between volunteers and researchers to discuss the experiences shared by community counterparts. Narratives have shown that the lived experience in the city is mediated by multiple layers of ‘urban insecurities’. These difficulties pressured people to organise and resist in face of pervasive inequalities as well as to respond to unfolding experiences of social suffering. We highlight the potential of participatory methodologies to observe the ways in which subjects face their structural issues and the suffering that emerge in these circumstances. The understanding of how these conflicts are lived at a subjective level can support studies that are wondering about the mechanisms of how social conflicts ‘get under the skin’.
U2 - 10.1080/09540261.2022.2027349
DO - 10.1080/09540261.2022.2027349
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 35584018
VL - 34
SP - 78
EP - 88
JO - International Review of Psychiatry
JF - International Review of Psychiatry
SN - 0954-0261
IS - 1
ER -
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