The Psychosocial Care Centers as spaces promoters of life: reports of deinstitutionalization in Alagoas

Abstract

This study is part of a research that aimed to trace the path of the new model of care in mental health in the state of Alagoas. Within the theoretical perspective of the deinstitutionalization, the paper discusses the transition of the care taken by psychiatric hospitals to the care provided in the territory, through CAPS, in view of its users, families and workers. It was elected the qualitative research strategy, in the Thematic Oral History method, guided interviews for the data producing and the fi ndings were submitted to the Thematic Analysis technique. The survey found, among other results, that the creation of these services brought to the subjects, who had previously only as hospitalization care experience, a new perspective. The relationships built through this new form of care no longer limited to the relations of the biomedical treatment or psychiatric such limited actions, but relations are incorporated in the collective
social engagement so that we can ensure a new social place for people in psychic suffering .