Abstract
The article discusses the ways of articulation of the Psychosocial Care Network (RAPS), considering the recursiveness established between them and the characteristics of continued care in the territory. This is a field research, with a qualitative approach, conducted with 22 subjects; the scenario were RAPS Natal-RN services. Focus groups and descriptive observation were performed, and the results were submitted to thematic content analysis, grouped into two categories: 1) The aligned network: embroidering islands of resistance between the asylum reminiscences - discussing the characteristics of mental health care of community base developed in the municipality; and 2) The reconnection of wires and knots by aligning the network - discussing the strategies adopted to promote interconnections that favor the continuity of mental health care in the territory. Attention is drawn to the recursiveness established between local care and the articulation of RAPS. A care based on specialty, medicalization and fragmentation is the product and producer of a punctually articulated network, in an alignment triggered by labels and intersubjectivities.
Keywords:
mental health; mental health services; healthcare