Ideación suicida en mujeres privadas de la libertad desde una mirada sistémica y compleja: Sistematizando la experiencia interventiva suicidal ideation in incarcerated women from a systemic and complex perspective: systematizing the intervention experience

Abstract

While incarceration involves painful experiences such as isolation, violence, and loneliness, there is a transversal issue across them: suicidal ideation. Research question: How are identity narratives related to suicidal ideation in incarcerated women understood and mobilized through artistic devices? Accordingly, the objective of this research/intervention was to systematize the intervention experience focused on understanding and mobilizing such narratives in incarcerated women through artistic devices. A therapeutic intervention was carried out with three women at El Buen Pastor Women’s Prison (Bogotá), members of a “therapeutic community.” Seven sessions were planned, audio-recorded, and documented with photographs of the artistic productions. A qualitative methodology was used, based on a second-order research/intervention approach with a systemic, constructionist, and complex perspective, within an experiential systematization framework. In conclusion, artistic tools enabled the creative questioning, mobilization, and transformation of saturated narratives around suicidal ideation, fostering participants’ identity reconfiguration toward the co-construction of more generative realities with themselves and their support networks.