This paper focuses on problematizing the State’s concession of benefits to Mental Health service users, and on reflecting about the use the latter make of this money. Result of the authors’ experience in deinstitutionalization strategies, this paper is based on the theoretical and clinical references of psychoanalysis – betting on the singularization of practices that exist in and around dealing with money in the field of Mental Health. Examples of clinic cases illustrate the problems.
Mental Health; concession of benefits; psychoanalysis; singularity