Therapeuthic residential services in mental health: is it a proposal to rescue the subjects' subjectivity?

Abstract

The study aims to contextualize the emergence of home projects for people with mental disorders in Brazil based on the implantation of the Psychiatric Reform in the 1980s and on the problem of psychiatric hospitals' residents. The study presents the results of a bibliographic research carried out in the LILACS database about the theme. Different approaches to the subject of homes for people with mental disorders were found in the period of the three different decades covered by the research: 1980s - attempts to humanize the asylum spaces through sheltered homes; 1990s - construction of the parameters for supported housing, which starts to occupy the urban spaces; from 2000 onwards - attempts to focus on the main actor of the homes, that is, those who reside in them. However, the construction of these spaces does not guarantee the change in the logic of the institutional relationships with people with mental disorders. Therefore, the challenge that remains is the rescue of the subjectivity of the people that reside in them.