[The psychosocial attention center from the experience of the patient with mental health disorder].

The qualitative and descriptive study was realized in a Psychosocial Attention Center in the southern region of Brazil. Such study aimed at getting to know the users' experience in the service and the importance of the psychosocial attention for him. The data were collected through five semi-structured interviews, recorded and analyzed, based on the experience and trajectory of the subject in spaces of psychosocial care, organized in the themes spaces of the subjectivity production; spaces of the empowerment production; spaces of interface with territory; spaces of the suffering recognition; spaces of exchange, teaching and learning; spaces of (re)conquest the self-esteem; the psychosocial attention center as a temporary device of care; municipal management and expansion of the psychosocial attention network. The subjects quoted activities such as assemblies, workshops, groups, participation in users and families association, and the interface with trainee's students as important spaces of psychosocial attention that produce autonomy and (re) conquest of the citizenship contributing to transformation theirs realities.