The present paper emphasizes the relationship between the Chronology of psychiatric hospital creation and health policy. The methodology was done by visiting or sending mail to institutions, collecting data from newspapers of Ceará and doing a bibliography study about health policy and mental health. Indeed, the creation of psychiatric hospitals was analysed from previous four phases of development of the psychiatric assistance in the country, according to the changes sisnce the begining to up to date. The analysis revealed that a creation of psychiatric hospitals keep close relationship with those phases and that health policy from each period of time had strong influence on them.