This article grounds on the mental health practices of a Psychosocial Attention Center (Caps) to discuss the conceptions of crisis inherent to the daily life of that service. Here, the crisis appears as another symptom to be cured by therapies and medications or to be prevented by police power. However, we can invest on the creative power of the crisis as catalyst for the building of new existential territories to those persons in pain. We chose a parsing event case for, from Caps support to such crisis, the services to rethink their organization and the professionals to review the affections produced by such event.
Crisis intervention; Mental health; Creativity