The mental patient’s path between confinement and life in society

Abstract

The following paper is related to the path followed by the mental patient during confinements in psychiatric hospital, looking for building your life in the community. The mental patient leaves the psychiatric hospital to live in community, but this paper’s purpose is the displacement from the depreciated and social exclusion place to the contractual power building and social involvement. The methodology applied was based on Agnes Heller’s quotidian concept of qualitative approach. The patients’ and relatives’ interviews were submitted to a speech analysis that not always reveals the social displacement related to space.