Abstract

DASSOLER, Volnei Antonio  and  PALMA, Claudia Maria de Sousa. Psychoanalysis contributions to the psychosocial clinic. Rev. Mal-Estar Subj. [online]. 2011, vol.11, n.3, pp. 1161-1188. ISSN 1518-6148.

In this article, we highlight, initially, the different knowledge and practices that have contributed in transforming the process of public mental health care assistance, movement known as Psychiatric Reform. Psychosocial Day-Care Centers (CAPS) are the outcome of this new configuration, a central strategy for mental illness care that has the novelty of combining clinical and political guidelines in the design of therapeutic projects. This new theoretical/clinical field displaces the traditional psychiatric discourse, replacing it with a multidisciplinary proposal that contemplates the complexity of mental phenomenon, enabling the construction of a clinic where the psychoanalysis alien is not seen as threatening or opposing, but recognized as an important therapeutic device, in syntony with the political/clinical resizing. Along these lines, the unconscious is the "stranger" that psychoanalysis wants to hear, justifying the social extension of psychoanalysis in the sense that the presence of the analyst is one of the key elements that contributes to the advance and solidification of psychosocial health clinic.

Keywords : Psychiatric reform; psychosocial care centers; psychoanalysis; clinic; mental health.

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