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SILVA, Laura Belluzzo de Campos. Reflections about the creation and closure of a day-hospital in the psychiatric reform in São Paulo. Interações [online]. 2002, vol.7, n.14, pp. 131-154. ISSN 1413-2907.

The aim of this work is to give an account of the creation, running as well as the closure of a public state’s government’s Day-Hospital, located in São Paulo City, which had been offering assistence of quality to psychotics, severe neurotics and their relatives, according to all criteria required by the Psychiatric Assistence Reform in the country: dehospitalization, the user’s integration with the community and resocialization, through a multidisciplinary staff’s intervention focused on a mental illness multidisciplinary outlook. Apart from having the intention of registering the indignation and perplexity face the dismantling of a piece of equipment which had been working properly, this article is interested in analizing the paradoxal effects of the public mental health policies in Brazil, placing them in the broader strenght lines which formed the present psychiatric area configuration.

Palavras-chave : Public policies of mental health; Psychiatric reform; Day-hospital; Multidisciplinary staff.

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