Abstract

CAMPOS, Adriana Pezzini  and  ROMAGNOLI, Roberta Carvalho. The encounters between the community health agents and the mental upheaval families. Mental [online]. 2007, vol.5, n.9, pp. 79-99. ISSN 1679-4427.

This essay presents a report about the encounters between the community health agents from the staff of the Family Health Program (PSF) in Matozinhos and the mental upheaval families, which are frequent users of CAPS-Cidadi, during home visits, with the objective to achieve knowledge about its effects in the process of subjetivation and mentally ill desinstitucionalization under the philosophy of different point of view. It has been presented the collected data during the field research and based on the data collected, a map of the results achieved was drawn, and the conclusion is that although the Reformulation of Brazilian Psychiatric, the desinstitucionalization of mental illness is still being a challenge that suffers the effects of the encounters between the community health agents and the mental upheaval families, as the disarticulation that exists between basic health attention and the mental health attention, beyond the ones originated from the "lunatic asylum desires" that live in the subjectivities.

Keywords : Public health services; Mental health; Desinstitucionalization; PSF; Family.

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