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This paper presents the concept of "Raw Art," following its main articulations in the field of art and mental health until the 1960s. Through a critical analysis, the text shows how this concept, despite encouraging the appreciation of artistic materials produced by psychiatric patients and other naïve artists, contributes to a segregationist categorization of the so-called "mad" artists, by adopting a reductionist and idealized understanding of creation as a spontaneous expression, accessible to these subjects precisely because they are "outsiders." Such notion, although still used today, underwent remodeling and renaming--as "outsider art"--between 1960/70, following the denaturalization of isolation for the so-called "insane" brought by the Psychiatric Reform and the advent of significant changes in the conception of art and artistic production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on problematizing the State's concession of benefits to Mental Health service users, and on reflecting about the use the latter make of this money. Result of the authors' experience in deinstitutionalization strategies, this paper is based on the theoretical and clinical references of psychoanalysis - betting on the singularization of practices that exist in and around dealing with money in the field of Mental Health. Examples of clinic cases illustrate the problems. [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 aims to describe and analyze certain aspects that concern the creation of a video installation by two artists in collaboration with mental health service users in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The author highlights certain privileged issues regarding clinical practices: fragmentation and reintegration in psychosis, the use of images and their returns for participating customers, the role of the public for the expansion of the witness function, and the problem of authorship in this context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to describe and analyze certain aspects that concern the creation of a video installation by two artists in collaboration with mental health service users in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The author highlights certain privileged issues regarding clinical practices: fragmentation and reintegration in psychosis, the use of images and their returns for participating customers, the role of the public for the expansion of the witness function, and the problem of authorship in this context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to discuss the subjective experience of using psychotropic drugs from the perspective of people diagnosed with schizophrenia. This is a qualitative study, with a hermeneutic or interpretative phenomenological base, that resulted from analyzing narratives produced in focus groups. It concludes that the experience of drug users is diverse and important, and should be included in the decision-making process as to their drug treatment, in which the subject must be central. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the effects of pervert's denial (Verleugnung) of the other, the collectivity and highlights its possible directions. The related research was carried out at a family health unit in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, and the participants were female community health workers in discussion groups. We discussed a clinical fragment in which a child had been abused by a perverse individual. There was a clear need for intervention to stop the pervert's jouissance and free the child. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to reflect on the relationship between mental health and social vulnerability at the intersection of biological psychiatry and the Brazilian psychiatric reform. The concepts of mental health and social vulnerability, as based on diagnostic manuals and epidemiological research, are taken up in the scope of public health policies. We identify the need to overcome the traditional technical and scientific logic to incorporate the singularity and knowledge related to human suffering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a dialogue between classical phenomenology psychology and primary mental health care, focusing on the practice ofpsychologists working at family health strategy support centers (NASFs). We highlight the importance of conceptions beyond each individual's pathology and suffering, grounded on respect, freedom, solidarity and the legitimacy of one's own uniqueness and that of the community as characteristics inherent to human beings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an analysis of treatments provided to drug users from a psychoanalytic perspective. Specific aspects of the clinical direction of the treatment of addictions are discussed, with a special focus on the concepts of subject, jouissance and ethics, brought up through fragments of clinical cases. We conclude that the psychoanalytic clinic does contribute to such treatments by opening up possibilities for a repositioning of the subject and new ways to configure jouissance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is on the topic of "evaluation and clinical evidence" and its relevance to the Italian context of mental health services. The subject is discussed based on the method of "clinical case construction," which is being developed at the School of Specialization in Psychiatry of the University of Milan. The practice of presenting and discussing cases is a way of evaluating the quality of these services. It is also proof that an evaluation tool can be developed which includes the singularity of the symptom as the axis of clinical work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]