Lineamientos generales para la construcción de una política de salud mental en el marco del nuevo humanismo del siglo XXI

Abstract

Mental health problems have worsened in most modern societies, to the point that disorders such as depression, anxiety and stress are among the main causes of work disablement in the world. Although the psychiatric hypothesis of Western science that assumes mental disorders as the result of a neurochemical imbalance is presented as hegemonic in today’s world to explain mental illnesses, there is no doubt that these disorders worsen in close correlation with the contradictions of political, socio-cultural and economic models that affect the lives of people sensitive to social breakdown or systemic contradictions. In this sense, this article defines some general guidelines for the construction of a mental health policy within the framework of the new humanism of the 21st century. Methodologically, the phenomenological and hermeneutic methods were used as useful tools to formulate precise proposals with some political utility. The results obtained allowed us to conclude that most neurodiverse people are, in act or in potential, citizens who are able to actively participate in the construction of their own realities, beyond their limitations of mood and behavior.