ABSTRACT
This article addresses the positions that community agents occupy in the production of mental health, through concepts such as control societies, subject of the experience and peripatetic clinic. It is proposed a cartographic orientation reading about the interface between mental health and Community Health Agents. The paths of the Psychiatric Reform are restored with the Program of Community Health Agents and the Family Health Strategy. It ends with the discussion about the paradoxical places occupied between the health power and the socio-cultural universe of the territory in the practices of the agents, in order to problematize the observation of Lancetti, that such professionals 'surf on the control'.
KEYWORDS
Community Health Workers; Family health; Mental health