This study inquires on mental health care, recovering popular culture as a means of finding affectivity, care and creation in the clinical care of severe psychic suffering. We will articulate the concept of popular culture to the notion of sensitive presence and a "sufficiently good environment" by the means of theoretical reflexion. We understand popular culture, within the field of mental health, as the game of conformism and resistance. We emphasize the importance of providing care which is sensitive to popular culture's means of expression, in the daily attention dispensed in mental health institutions, as well as an ethical and aesthetic attitude towards severe psychic suffering.
psychiatric reform; sensitive presence; severe psychic suffering; popular culture