Pereira, Erica Cristina [UNESP]da Costa-Rosa, Abílio2022-04-292022-04-292012-10-01Saude e Sociedade, v. 21, n. 4, p. 1035-1043, 2012.0104-1290http://hdl.handle.net/11449/231296Mental Health, in the form of the Psychiatric Reform, and the Anti-Asylum Movement do not ignore the production of knowledge about that field, mainly due to the consolidation of Public Health as a field of knowledge. The article explores some authors who consider Mental Health as a new field of knowledge, introducing a new paradigm in the perception of health - Disease and Care -; however, the goal is to introduce Psychosocial Care as a means to enforce the transdisciplinary and multiprofessional practices. The possibility is that mental health produces developments in Health, consolidating the public policies. In practice, the hospital-centered and drug-based model still predominates, and there are setbacks to be overcome by taking advantage of loopholes capable of breaking with what is instituted.1035-1043engMental healthPsychosocial carePublic healthArtigo10.1590/S0104-129020120004000202-s2.0-84873113272