Abstract

PEREIRA, Luzia Rodrigues  and  MUNOZ, Nuria Malajovich. Introducing flexibility: clinical work with the transition from psychiatric hospitalization to community life. Mental [online]. 2012, vol.10, n.18, pp. 53-68. ISSN 1679-4427.

This article discusses the specificities of a clinical study that aims to analyze the transition of a psychotic person who was being treated in a mental health hospital to community life. We consider that this institution can hold a function that is not static for users, but instead changes according to each person´s route. To discuss it, we will use concepts coming from the French institutional psychotherapy and the Italian democratic psychiatry, which will help to consider the possibility of people with mental disorders to circulate in society. Authors that use Freud´s theory, considering the Lacan´s reading of Psychoanalysis, will also be cited. Two clinical cases will be presented to illustrate the question of how a psychotic person can dispense with and take advantage of the institution.

Keywords : Psychosis; institution; psychoanalysis; psychiatric reform; community.

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