La salud mental vista desde la medicina social latinoamericana

Ruiz Eslava, Luisa Fernanda

Existen nuevas comprensiones sobre salud mental que deben tomarse en cuenta incluyen a la persona como sujeto social en un contexto sociocultural especifico. Durante siglos y hasta nuestros tiempos se ha relacionado la salud mental con enfermedad, lo que ha llevado a fortalecer imaginarios sobre la locura y a sufrir un estancamiento en el desarrollo de comprensiones que permitan una mirada compleja y dinámica sobre la salud mental.

Objetivo:

Realizar un acercamiento a la comprensión de la salud mental vista desde la medicina social latinoamericana, retomando bibliografía relacionada.

Método:

Acercamiento conceptual y análisis documental sobre posturas complejas, socioconstruccionistas, criticas, que vuelven al sujeto protagonista de la vida relacional-colectiva, además de revisar material bibliográfico relacionado con salud mental, medicina social y comprensión de sujeto.

Conclusiones:

Se propone una comprensión de la salud mental que retorne al sujeto y a su acontecer cotidiano, considerando las condiciones sociales, históricas, económicas y culturales; a la vez que se tienen en cuenta las relaciones, las conexiones y la vida cotidiana, y fomentando las votes de los colectivos.

There are new ways to understand mental health which should be taken into account, which include an individual as a social individual in a specific socio-cultural context.

Introduction:

For centuries, and even today, mental health has been associated with illness, which has led us to strengthen our social imaginary on madness and to a stagnation in the development of ways to understand it allowing us to have a complex and dynamic perspec-tive on mental health.

Aim:

To make an approach to the understanding of mental health as seen from the social Latin-American medicine perspective by retaking related bibliography.

Method:

A conceptual approach and documentary analysis will be made to complex socio constructionist and critical postures, retaking the individual as the protagonist of relational-collective life. Bibliographic material dealing with mental health, social medicine and subject comprehension is reviewed.

Conclusions:

This study proposes a comprehension of mental health which retakes the individual and his everyday life, considering his social, historic, economic and cultural conditions. It takes into account the relations, connections and every¬day life which transcend the individual and individualism, linear explanations, labeling and diagnoses enhancing the voices of collectives.