OBJECTIVE:
This paper studied the daily life of residents of Therapeutic Residential Services (TRS) discharged after long-term psychiatric internments. The objective was to describe the residents' social reintegration process of residents, considering the TRS model.
METHODS:
This is a qualitative study, whose subjects were residents of TRS. Data analysis followed the principle of thematic content analysis.
RESULTS:
The therapeutic project envisioned by the staff of the Therapeutic Residential Service is in accordance with the recommendations in the epistemological paradigms of Psychosocial Rehabilitation.
CONCLUSION:
The interviews revealed the experience of living outside the mental hospital, showing the reconstruction of this subject as a social being, in practical terms, with some residents who circulates through the neighborhood, talks to neighbors, while others argue with peers and are intolerant of colleagues.
Deinstitutionalization; Assisted Living Facilities; Mental Health