title: [The process of institutional transformation of San Luis Psychiatric Hospital].
abstract: This article focuses on the human and institutional contradictions involved in the transformation process of a classic psychiatric hospital in the province of San Luis, Argentina. This process has to resolve clinical, cultural, ideological, political conflicts, in the heart of the chosen path, in order to affirm the existence of the mental illness, the need to find new treatments for the new sufferings involved in leaving enclosure opting for freedom and the accompaniment of those who suffer.
authors.affiliation: pellegrini.jorge@gmail.com
authors.forename: Jorge L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Pellegrini
mesh_terms: D001118:Argentina; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000592:standards*