CENTRO DE ATENÇÃO PSICOSSOCIAL:

TRANSFORMAÇÃO DA CLÍNICA TRADICIONAL DE MUNDOS ISOLADOS EM LUGAR DA MULTITERRITORIALIDADE

Abstract

The Psychiatric Reform was established to concede the rights of people with mental disabilities. The legal formalization happened in 2002: "new devices and care technologies were established to deconstruct the psychiatric hospital and to promote citizenship and the social insertion of people suffering from mental disorders" (AMARANTES, 2003, p.7). These new equipments, highlighting the Centro de Atenção Psicossocial (CAPS), work with the logic of heterogeneity and social construction to re-territorialize their users in the city. The aim of the present article is to discuss the complexity of the change of philosophies and practices of the asylum system for the Psychiatric Reform, and its reflexes in the relation between user, service, space, culture, cognitive care and subjectivity. The research has the character of exploratory research and it will use concepts from Environmental Psychology to analyze the physical environment, behavioral components and the processes of territorialization of the users of the network of Mental Health.