The thesis Work, Identity and Discourse: Analyzing the narratives of psychiatric patients during a research interview investigates the construction of identity that emerges from the discursive production of psychiatric patients working at the UFRJ`s Instituto de Psiquiatria (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro`s Institute of Psychiatry). These patients are seen as outpatients and at the daily care center, and take part in work and income generation projects developed at the institution. They function as outsourced workers in activities including hospital reception and data organization at the IT center, besides taking part in artistic creation workshops that include working with music, painting and video. The objective of these projects is to foster the socialization and psychosocial rehabilitation of the hospital`s clientele. I use the discourse analysis standpoint and Interactional Sociolinguistics to examine how these patients develop their stories, how they represent themselves in relation to the way they experience their disease, and the role the aforementioned work plays in their paths; I particularly analyze the evaluations contained in their narratives. The discourse analysis of how the stories are composed shows how complex their topical organization is, with narrative and argumentative units presenting different functions for negotiating meanings and involving the participants in the interaction. The evaluation inherent in these units is an important resource for the verbal expression of the characteristics these patients attribute to their disease and to the work while they develop their identities. By using the anthropological conceptions of individual and person as well as the notion of a post- modern subject derived from Cultural Studies, I also examine how this construction of identity expresses complex value configurations. Concerning the work, we can see how the artistic activity is expressed as a fundamental resource for health recovery; the work, therefore, is defined mainly through its rehabilitative dimension.