Abstract

RODRIGUES, Dayane Silva; CARVALHO, Maria Aparecida Alves Sobreira de  and  XIMENES, Verônica Morais. The community as production space for mental health: contributions of community psychology to the process of desinstitutionalization. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2011, vol.11, n.3, pp. 734-754. ISSN 1808-4281.

In the context of implementation of psychiatric reform in Brazil, important achievements were obtained with the proposition of alternative services to asylum. However, the desinstitutionalization of madness exceeds the limits of unospitalization and is also a growing challenge today. To advance this issue, the community has been increasinglyhighlighted as a potentially rich space in producing collective mental health. However, there are a few questions and discussions about the specific therapeutic possibilities of this place. In this sense, community psychology has some contributions that allow to reflect about the understanding of this term and community processes in general. Thus, the purpose of this article is to set some contributions of community psychology to promote the desinstitutionalization in the own mental health services and beyond.

Keywords : Desinstitutionalization; Mental health; Community Psychology; Community.