This article aims to demarcate the discourses and practices concerning the notion of responsibility in the field of mental health, given the process of negotiating, sharing, and delegating responsibilities for care between healthcare professionals, family, clients, and community members. "Taking responsibility for the service through the territory" is one such discourse. The construction of "reference staff members" in Centers for Psychosocial Care is an example of such changes. One notes how practices pertaining to engagement, bond, and implication are techniques whose therapeutic and administrative functions are linked.
Responsibility; mental health; psychosocial care; population management