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This paper describes in what way Jacques Lacan opens a new path to approach the mystical experience in the light of psychoanalysis. The French master compares the path of the analyst to the one undertaken by the mystic and thus goes against the trends in the fields of psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis that pathologized this phenomenon at that time and reduced it to hysterical or psychotic symptomatology. Lacan also draws an intimate connection between the goal of the analysis and the achievement of an opening to the feminine field. Following the path suggested by this author, we suggest distinguishing the notions of Other jouissance and jouissance of the Other, providing elements for a differential diagnosis between mystical experience (marked by desubjectification) and psychotic outbreak (marked by subjective annihilation). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes actions taken by a Psychosocial Care Center (CAPS, type II) in 2015, in a municipality of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. We conducted a retrospective, descriptive-exploratory study based on secondary data source accessed by means of Tab for Windows (TabWin), which led to the conclusion that the CAPS is fully able to develop intersectoral, multidisciplinary actions that aim to promote mental health, prevent aggravation and support people to tackle crisis situations. We also highlight how essential studies are that provide discussions on how to increase the participation of users in the mental health sector and to promote participatory spaces in society as a whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes actions taken by a Psychosocial Care Center (CAPS, type II) in 2015, in a municipality of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. We conducted a retrospective, descriptive-exploratory study based on secondary data source accessed by means of Tab for Windows (TabWin), which led to the conclusion that the CAPS is fully able to develop intersectoral, multidisciplinary actions that aim to promote mental health, prevent aggravation and support people to tackle crisis situations. We also highlight how essential studies are that provide discussions on how to increase the participation of users in the mental health sector and to promote participatory spaces in society as a whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the conditions present for the emergence of the talking cure as one among other medical therapies in the late 19th century. The hypothesis is that the construction of the psychism as a medical object is related to the emergence of medical categories for symptoms that seem to have no anatomical basis, such as neurasthenia, hysteria and psychosthenia. These categories helped show that purely organic explanations were insufficient to explain many symptoms. They therefore contributed to the establishment up a new style of clinical treatment based on speech. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses Freud's reading of Dostoyevsky's hystero-epilepsy, based onthis latter's literary production, biography and correspondence. The hypothesis that there was no epilepsy has its limits, but we found that the relationship between Dostoyevsky and father figures did play a crucial role in his neurosis, which served as a symptomatic construction to deal with his helplessness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]