Disputas y avatares en torno al sujeto de la salud mental colectiva
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This article presents an overview of the transit through different paradigms of mental health from a supposed objectivity centered on illness towards a complex, social and cultural field in permanent interpellation, from a power centered on psi knowledge, towards a democratization or a sharing of power between disciplines and lay knowledge, that position mental health in its relational and historical character. These transitions raise the question of the subject of mental health, which suggests that we move from its erasure, masked by the diagnostic label and illness, to the emergence of a historicised subject who, while suffering, also resists through his or her capacity for agency and transformation. This approach resonates with Latin American collective health by considering the health-illness-care-care-death process as a contested social production, which allows for new meanings for mental health and its practical derivations.
Source: Fronteras
DOI: 10.47428/18.1.2
Author: Beatriz Elena Arias López
Institution: Universidad Nacional de Lanús
Language: Spanish
Topic: Psychology and Mental Health
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7152515602