The objective of this study was to assess mental health policy in its implementation through analyzing Psychosocial Care Center therapeutic projects. It consists of a qualitative research, conducted in 2006 from key documents to the process of planning and managing mental health policy, namely 21 projects from therapeutic Psychosocial Care Centers of Southern Brazil which have undergone qualitative document analysis. It concludes pointing out proposals strongly aligned to the assumptions of psychiatric reform from the number of documents examined and others, which in addition to the typical contradictions of a process under construction, have an authoritarian, disciplining speech, contrary to assumptions, including those of the normative apparatus of the manner for psychosocial care.
Evaluation; Mental health; Public policies