A comunidade como espaço de produção de saúde mental: contribuições da psicologia comunitária ao processo de desinstitucionalização

Abstract

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 increasingly highlighted 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.