Nara Amaral de Omena’s research while affiliated with Federal University of Uberlândia and other places

This article aims to cast a glance over the family clinic at the Psychosocial Care Centers - PCCs, discussing the strategies of family care in the forms of family groups and family therapy. First we address the context of changes in mental health care with the focus on psychosocial care and the implement of the PCCs. We discuss the contribution of Psychoanalysis to the context of Mental Health and specifically the Psychoanalysis of Family or the Psychoanalysis of Link Configurations. We present a fragment of a family treatment. We emphasize the importance of listening to the whole family in order to enable the constitution of a new psychosocial care model. Thus, family therapy at the PCCs becomes one of the fundamental care devices in the daily encounter with suffering, taking as a point of departure not only the subject, but his links, thus expanding family care in a significant way.