Função de publicização do acompanhamento terapêutico: A produção do comum na clínica

Abstract

This article argues the Therapeutic Accompaniment (TA) as a clinical-political device and its implications on attention to mental health in the context of the Psychiatric Reform in Brazil. TA emerged in a movement of deinstitutionalization of madness, taking the city as its field of experimentation and inserting itself beyond the health establishments. It performs a "clinic without walls", discussing at the same time mental illness and its relationship with urban spaces radically questioning the asylum practices. Following the device in its variations and in its links to mental health network in Brazil, we look at some functions that the TA operates. From these functions, TA appears as a rallying of forces capable of consolidating a public status to the clinic.