title: [Mental health nursing work: contradictions and current potentialities].
abstract: This study aimed to identify contradictions and challenges that are present nowadays in mental health nursing work, in the context of the Psychiatric Reform, on the basis of the historical-social construction of this working process. The Psychiatric Reform presupposes a new design of work purpose and instruments, which still have little visibility in nursing practice, and the possibility for the person in mental suffering to achieve the subject-citizen condition - way of being and work purpose - which is directly related with the subject-citizen awareness of the nursing worker.
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Enfermagem e Nutrição, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Brazil. luizalessi@convex.com.br
authors.forename: Alice G Bottaro
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: de Oliveira
authors.forename: Neiry Primo
authors.initials: NP
authors.lastname: Alessi
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends
vernacular_title: O trabalho de enfermagem em saúde mental: contradiçõs e potencialidades atuais.