From pavilion to the streets: the territorial anchor of the psichiatric reform

Abstract

From pavilion to the streets: the most significant fact of this new system is the acknowledgment that mental health care must be faced with the support of social networks from quotidian life of people with mental disorders: family members, neighbors, civil associations, workmates, religion institutions... Concerning the fact that the psychic suffering has as important consequence the impoverishment of the social ties; the therapeutic effort also has to concentrate in the territorial anchor - fundamental basis of social network - in direct cooperation between the therapeutic practice and family, civil and communitarian associations. People with psychic suffering (re)build their sociability in belonging scenarios with the most diverse trajectories, implicating institutional anchors and practice of primary and secondary sociability, seeking for support and solidarity. Este artigo pretende inventariar estas práticas, construindo tipologias de apoio e suas inscrições em círculos sociais; é um esforço preliminar para análise de dados de pesquisa em andamento sobre redes e apoio social. This article intends to investigate these practices, building support typologies and their inscriptions in social circles; it is a preliminary effort of analyzing research data about network and social support, still in progress.