Abstract
The Therapeutic Residences (TRs) are housing for the former patients of psychiatric hospitalizations. This study will address the research carried out in a neighborhood where there are five TRs, in order to discuss the living together with TRs dwellers. Will examine the field diaries resulting of the participant observation, which were analyzed through thematic content analysis and discussed by Identity Social Theory. The participant observation enabled the record of informations in situations that were not foreseen earlier, like the meeting with a caregiver and residents of TRs. Also allowed to affirm that part of social relations in the context of TRs is within the field of intergroup relations, related to the processes of constitution of social identity. These relationships become effective from speeches of intergroup differentiation and lead to control against the residents of TRs.
Keywords:
therapeutic residences; deinstitutionalization; social identity; participant observation; ethnography