The author of this article takes a psychoanalytic perspective to discuss the symbolic insertion of the psychotic face of otherness as a way of organizing one's dwelling. This analysis is part of a multi-centric and multidisciplinary research, the purpose of which is to assess how individuals with serious mental suffering set up their dwellings (habitus) and social insertion through structural elements of their housing, or dwelling (shelter, privacy, safety and comfort) and through social support (social networks and services).
Psychiatric reform; therapeutic residential services; social inclusion; psychoanalysis; social bond