Abstract
This article aims to present the main paths and impasses regarding the deinstitutionalization process in four cities in Greater Vitória, in Brazil. The described scenario occurred through operationalized research with the use of focus groups formed by workers from the Psychosocial Care Network. After the content analysis, deinstitutionalization from the perspective of Psychosocial Care Centers and Residential Therapeutic Services, as well as other important subthemes, such as the care network and the centrality of psychiatric hospitalization in the care process, resulted as themes. We consider that, despite the structural difficulties of the network, there is the engagement of many of these professionals in the work processes and we emphasize the importance of resistance in the fight for the guarantee of the Psychiatric Reform to ensure, in fact, the process of deinstitutionalization.
deinstitutionalization; mental health services; psychiatric reform; mental health workers