Transdisciplinarity and hybrid practice in mental health

Abstract

Deistitutionalization process in metal health and the brazilian Psychiatric Reform send to the necessity of new practices in mental health attention. Create such practices, in order to face vulnerable life situations and also attend to complexity of life, considering personal characteristics and the subjective aspect of each history life, has been a challenge to mental health professionals committed with the construction of a service network that can be able to overcome the central place of psychiatric hospitals. Mental health staff have to face the challenge of reviewing their every day practices and, at the same time, to migrate from a mutiprofessional organization towards a transdisciplinar dynamic. This could lead the staff to a situation trough what they can inhabit boundaries as a strategy in order to establish hybrid territories in health practices. This paper aims to discuss this challenge, from the perspective of Brazilian's Psychiatric Reform, considering the demand of innovation that promotes new arrangements among different areas of knowledge within mental health field.