We investigated literacy practices in a study carried out in a mental health hospital. Both the therapeutic character of writing and the psychiatric institutionalization were considered. The double interdiction to writing was also taken into account, namely: the marginal position towards its singular uses, as well as the stigmatization of those who live under the sign of insanity. During the study , were privileged those events that showed an especial involvement between writing and subjectivity. Thus, through the reconstruction of inmate stories, we could contribute to the recovery of memories effaced by the pathology, and give them the possibility to reconstruct their truth, within the discourse materiality.
Literacy; Writing; Subject