The emergency of the therapeutic accompaniment and the policy of mental health

This work targets the analyzis of the emergency process of therapeutic accompaniment (TA). Its objective is, this way, to make a critical journey in the field of health sciences, having the second half of the XXth century as the start point for a field investigation for the TA activities. Traditionally this practice is known as an "integration perspective", based on the idea of a "unidirectional adaptation" of the patient. We understand, however, that the experience that coexists with the unusual situations that occur during the TA interventions produces effects that surpass the "adaptation goals", the "institutionalization protocols", and leads to a clinical, political and artistical dimension in the force relations experimentation and in the subjectivation processes implied in it.

Clinic; Therapeutic accompaniment; Subjectivation processes