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Salud mental
Print version ISSN 0185-3325
Abstract
ALARCON-GUZMAN, Renato D. and CASTILLO-MARTELL, Humberto. The role of Community Mental Health in a new architecture of World psychiatry and Global Mental Health. Salud Ment [online]. 2020, vol.43, n.5, pp.235-240. Epub Nov 12, 2020. ISSN 0185-3325. https://doi.org/10.17711/sm.0185-3325.2020.032.
Introduction
The influx of new knowledge and scientific contributions into contemporary world psychiatry has counted on a vigorous dissemination through technology-inspired means. This process has led to the realities of Global Mental Health (GMH) inspired by “a new epistemology” of mostly positivistic roots.
Objective
To explore the basis of these realities and the resulting homogenization attempts of psychiatry as a medical, clinical, and research discipline.
Discussion and conclusion
The need for “a new architecture” of contemporary psychiatry is discussed as a reflection of a correct epistemological exercise and a renewed pact between professionals and communities, materialized in and enriched by the re-emerging Community Mental Health (CMH) movement. The essential bases of the movement are presented, and its mutually collaborative, multidisciplinary, integrated, and realistic nature, as reflected in national efforts like Peru’s in Latin America, is described.
Keywords : Global Mental Health; Community Mental Health; epistemology; epidemiology; mental health strategies.