ABSTRACT
This article intends to give visibility to the process of constitution and implementation of the Permanent Forum of Community and Cultural Centers (Ceco) in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Its inception, theoretical assumptions, and legal, ethical, and political developments among the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform have been described. The Forum’s experience has provided three methodological clues, which are useful to design policies: 1) To be opened to everybody’s participation, without restrictions; 2) to move without being stuck at the same place; 3) Multiplicity, the desire of the differences without obstructing the path along the way. As a product of this instituted movement, Law No. 4,563/2018 has been collectively generated to create the Community and Cultural Center’s policy of the psychosocial network, in Rio de Janeiro, which has been presented by the parliamentary front in defense of mental health and the anti-asylum struggle at the Legislative Assembly of the State of Rio de Janeiro. The movement related to the Ceco, which are important devices to promote meetings in the city, is supported by the production of what is common and is aimed at the sustainability of conviviality in order to resist the dismantling of our public health system and neoliberalism.
KEYWORDS
Centers of connivance and leisure; Mental health; Health policies