An updated but not amnesical prospective to community health psychologists is searched with a cross-country review of this century's most important methodologies on analysis and intervention about excluded people. The dynamics of exclusion by the originary group (family/society) is considered. Madness is analysed from a psychoanalytical point-of-view (Freud e Lacan) with some of the phenomenologists contribution (Merleau-Ponty, Jaspers, Laing). Two complementar methods are briefly described and suggested as useful to community health's psychologists: the operative group technique applied to patients and multidisciplinar team of therapists (Pichón-Rivière) and the holding method (Winnicott) adapted to groups of severe adult patients.
holding; communitary health; counter-transference; madness; operative groups; holding