TERAPIA OCUPACIONAL E SAÚDE COLETIVA: APONTAMENTOS SOBRE INTERDISCIPLINARIDADE A PARTIR DE UMA NARRATIVA AUTOBIOGRÁFICA

Abstract

The objective of this article was to explore the knowledge located at the interface between Collective Health and Occupational Therapy, based on the analysis of an autobiographical narrative. The methodology used was the bio-autobiographical investigation, using the researcher's personal documents as sources, systematized through a contextualization map and then structured in a narrative. Data analysis was carried out by grouping the thematic fields of meanings that emerged from the narrative and discussing them with the references of Occupational Therapy and Collective Health. As a result, the modes of constituting the objects of study and domains of Occupational Therapy and Collective Health as disciplines became central to this process, as well as the tension between a disconnected interdisciplinarity and an interdisciplinarity that seeks synthesis as the last and most valuable arrangement. It is considered that the construction of disciplines and the different understandings about interdisciplinarity are significant elements for the construction of interdisciplinary practices in the field of collective health. Still, the construction of a biographical narrative favored the approximation between researcher and research object and, carries the power of, from singular experiences, to name the experience of many and reveal the knowledge from within certain phenomena, less accessible to conventional research methods.