Critical contributions on some conceptual elements of the National Mental Health Law based on clinical experience in a center for health and community action in the southern area of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Abstract

In this article, concepts extracted from the National Mental Health Law 22657 of the Argentine Republic are analyzed, from the perspective of the clinical practice carried out in a Center for Health and Community Action (CeSAC), located in the southern area of the  Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA). The following notions are analyzed: perspective of rights in health, accessibility, stigma associated with problematic consumption of substances, interdiscipline and intersectoriality. It is pointed out the scarce relative development that had in the norm the definition of notions linked to community practices in front of the extensive space occupied by the regulation of internment practices.