[Qualitative research in the context of Brazilian Psychiatric Reform: voices, places, skills/actions].

This study sought to assess qualitative research based on the context of Brazilian psychiatric reform. An integrative review was conducted in the LILACS and SciELO databases resulting in a shortlist of 25 papers. Research subjects are workers, users and family members, the scenarios are predominantly psychosocial care centers and the themes preponderantly address the technical and care-related dimension of the reform.

[Comprehensive health care as the core concept for technological organization in services].

Despite the marked achievements of the Unified Health System (SUS), implementation of its principles and guidelines has not yet been fully achieved. Therefore, this article reflects on comprehensiveness and technology reorganization based on soft technologies and expanded clinical care, not only as guidelines, but as core elements for a new way of thinking about health. It involves a literature review that not only seeks an overview of ideas about the subject, but also attempts to establish a dialogue between the authors in reference to reflect on daily services, especially in hospital.

[Time in mental illness according to Nise da Silveira].

This research is about time at psychiatric hospitals. After a brief review of the literature on time and time at a psychiatric hospital, the author focused on psychiatry's approach and on studies by Nise da Silveira, a researcher who worked at the Centro Psiquiátrico Nacional do Engenho de Dentro, Rio de Janeiro (now named Centro Psiquiátrico Pedro II), where in 1946 she founded an Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation Division, which a patient named "the emotions coping room". Time of mental illness according to Nise is equal to the synthesis of time versus affection, with no considerations towards the sensitivities of scientific knowledge, but instead is a search for the real complexities of the human condition.

[Life and work of women hospitalized at a psychiatric unit].

This study was carried out at the women's sector of a psychiatric hospital in the city of Mossoró, RN, Brazil. Our aim was to learn about the life and work aspects regarding first hospitalizations and rehospitalizations of theses women. To this end the authors applied semistructured interviews with 10% of the hospitalized women, studied their medical files and talked to the hospital's nursing staff about the women that were interviewed.