Abstract
This paper examines possible paths for a clinical practice in/of territory, in the context of the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), the Brazilian unified health system. The work trajectory as a psychologist of one of its authors, from 2007 to 2015, in different units of SUS served as a field to a cartography, which is used as a method of research-intervention. In this context, we follow the constitution processes of different ways of thinking and doing clinical work, based on records of everyday work scenes. These, once revisited, composed a cartographic narrative of experiences. The research was guided by some notions: of clinical, as a catalyst for meetings that produces passages and deviations, operated in the “between borders”; of health, as a production process, carried out through assemblages; of territory, as a space of life and process. With this research, we claim that it is possible to build a clinical practice of “assembling bodies” that takes place “in” the people’s life territory, and “of” territory, when it incorporates its elements and when it accompanies the movement of (de) construction of subjective landscapes, on a collective and moving plane. By engaging with the plan of constitution of life, where it actually takes place, this clinical work becomes political, positions itself against the sociability regimes put in place, strengthening the public aspects of SUS.
Keywords:
clinical practice; health; territory; SUS; cartographic narrative