The objective of this thesis is to discuss recent developments in Community Psychology as practiced by a team of trainees at the Applied Psychology Service, under the author's supervision. This project has been carried out since January 2002, at the IADAS Health Center (IADAS meaning Friends of Health Institute), an NGO managed by the community at Muzema. Today, Social Community Psychology contributes to analyses of the relationships between the subjective and objective worlds, and is also a space for broadening the traditional spheres of psychology. From this perspective clinical work can be carried out on the basis of the Broadened Clinic Concept. The insertion of psychologists into lowincome communities can also bring about dialog among subjects from different contexts. Cultural reconstruction thus becomes possible, as well as the ethic of concern for others and the construction of collective projects in today's context of growing urban individualism. Using the methodology of participated research and based on a framework of sociohistorical theoretical reference, twelve semi-structured interviews were held with women of the community. Their discourse was interpreted in the light of the theories employed by the author and articulated with the cultural reality observed. Several different topics were discussed and reflected upon in this theoretical-practical articulation, such as the community in contemporary culture, individualism, the absence of the State, and the reality of excluded populations. The results showed that the women are aware of problems that are common but which, in contemporary life, are seen as existing only on the individual level. Besides avoiding generalizations on histories of excluded subjects, the recognition of words in their uniqueness prevents one from disregarding the power of subjects who live in communities and the uniformization of today's subjectivities. Finally, the position is held that communities can be analyzed as microcosms of a broader context, it therefore being possible to construct public and social policies on the basis of the main themes investigated in this study.