Discussing mental health and the several factors that imply the production of health or illness is necessary as a way of supporting the problematization of the work process of different professionals who are in this field, but also the impacts that possible repositioning, based on reflection on work practices, they can bring to the lives of those who receive care, mainly in public facilities. The general goal of this dissertation work is to discuss how issues such as racism, male chauvinism and social inequality intersect in asylum practices and can cause the perpetual incarceration of people considered undesirable, it constitutes strategic and a descriptive research. To this purpose, the intersectionality of the aforementioned factors and their effects is discussed, which, in this case, have led to the incarceration, as a security measure, of a poor and black woman with a mental disorder for a large part of her life. To achieve the objective of this study, experience reports and the case fragments are used. This is a qualitative research and presents a literature review on the aforementioned topic. The selection of the theoretical framework for carrying out the study was done through the selection of books and articles, using search bases such as Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), Pantheon (UFRJ), Maxwell (PontifíciaUniversidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro [PUC-Rio]), and the Journals of the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Capes).