The mad man tied to the chestnut tree in One Hundred Years of Solitude can be seen as a metaphor of the ties that institutionalization can engender. What can be done to make a therapeutic residence perform the role of a transitory space for patients, since there they are not tied down as they would be in a psychiatric institution? Based on Winnicott's concepts we tried to answer this question by making a connection between the facilitating environment and the therapeutic residence environment.
Therapeutic residence; deinstitutionalization; psychoanalysis; Winnicott