Mental Health Care in regression times:

flashes and resistances

Abstract

In a scenario of tensions and backtracks concerning health political-democratic-social policies, this paper reflects on mental health practices and the risk of conservative and bureaucratic tradition forms of attention already present in the institutions return. This paper tried to point out that the playful –as creative power- and collective empowerment -in the democratic construction perspective- can be configured as antidotes to the inflexible modes of (not) care. Collective and creative experiences of a psychologist resident in mental health -in Campinas-SP (Brazil) and in elective internship held in Rosario (Argentina)- are developed along the paper: the potential of what was produced by/ from experiences, as well as challenges regarding the need institutional permeability in order to be able to deploy a libertarian care, singular and that sustains the difference.