This paper aims to describe and analyze certain aspects that concern the creation of a video installation by two artists in collaboration with mental health service users in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The author highlights certain privileged issues regarding clinical practices: fragmentation and reintegration in psychosis, the use of images and their returns for participating customers, the role of the public for the expansion of the witness function, and the problem of authorship in this context.
Art; mental health; psychoanalysis; image