This study was elaborated based on the work experience in a Mental Health Integral Attention Center from the public health service. It analyses the technical peculiarities from the clinical work in this out-patient clinic. The article questions about the possibility of psychoanalysis insertion in the public health, a milieu very different from its traditional acting place. The study concludes that the psychoanalytical insertion in this milieu seems to be possible and even necessary, but needs interest both from the public health politics and from the psychoanalysts, that have to overcome their own resistances.
Mental health; Public health; Psychoanalysis; Substitute mental health attention services