This dissertation aims to discuss the relation between the new madness care and intervention service which is the Center for Psychosocial Care (CAPS), and the psychiatric view that was built throughout the XIX century. The CAPS that is supported by the precepts of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform, purpose to combat the asylum assistance for madness model that last long over the centuries, especially supported by the modern period through the psychiatric discourse that look the madness as the object of its knowledge, transforming it into mental illness. The method of research was participant observation which passed through the direct presence oh the researcher on the study field, describing the elements that define the research object, such...