A RELAÇÃO ENTRE SUJEITO E AMBIENTE NA PERSPECTIVA HISTÓRICA DA SAÚDE MENTAL

This paper means to discuss the intersections related to the space’s influence in mental health services users. For that, the historical rescue of how medicine has taken appropriation of the hospital, going through the mental health hospitals institution to the psychiatric reform that has taken place in Brazil, are focused on the debate on the physical space influence in the work with the user. With that, the theoretical constructions’ approach that take place in the relation between space and subject, becomes another necessary topic so that the importance of that relation in mental health is brought to light. The concepts are pursued in a context of interdisciplinarity, having psychology and social sciences dealing with a historical focus, along with the design approach in questioning the relation between space and subject. Therefore, the conclusion reached is that it is of fundamental importance to think the physical space in the mental health attention institutions.