In this article the author questions the notion of “community” in the field of psychotherapy and mental health. He considers the question of “community” from four perspectives: the involvement of multi-personal therapeutic fields that enable the processes of diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of the suffering person; the proximal socio-cultural space in which the incidence of family and social determinants of the patient’s distress and psychic pathology can be detected; the professional communities of mental health workers; and, finally, the community as a therapeutic device.