The aim of this study is to discuss the crosscutting discursive issues among the notions of mental health care, risk and territory in the National Conferences of Mental Health (NCMH) reports, placing them in the context of safety society. It is a descriptive, exploratory study of qualitative, documentary and retrospective analysis, under the framework relevance, emphasizing the centrality of these concepts for the consolidation of a new mental health care model in Brazil. As the asylum model went into decline, in the process of the archaeology of knowledge, by Michel Foucault. From the 2nd to 4th NCMH, it is observed that the glossary on the risk as probability, care and territory, presented progressive of building up a mental health care network territorialized and community-based, the discourses about the risks emerged, being core elements of the safety device.
Care; Mental health; Territory; Safety Society