Clinical sociology and mental health

Abstract

The project “Recovery and life project” has a double objective: i. propose to the employees and residents of Maison Saint-Dominique (MSD - Montréal/Canadá), an in-depth work on his “family history and social trajectory”, under the guidance of clinical sociology, ii. develop an action research to evaluate this experiment as an alternative perspective on mental health, to be disseminated and compared other practices in the field of mental health. The article presents, in the first moment, the approach, its theoretical and methodological foundations. In the second moment, it reports the way in which the participants carried out the proposal and the perceived effects from their testimonies. The approach illustrates the interest in developing a clinic of complexity within the domain of mental health.