African Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Volume 2, Issue 1, February 2022 | |
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Pathogenic Societies and Collective Madness: A Critical Look at Normalcy |
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Enric Garcia Torrents1* |
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1Medical Anthropology Research Center, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain. E-mail: enric.garcia@urv.cat
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Afr.J.Humanit.&Soc.Sci. 2(1) (2022) 1-6, DOI: https://doi.org/10.51483/AFJHSS.2.1.2022.1-6 | |
Received: 22/03/2021|Accepted: 19/12/2021|Published: 01/02/2022 |
This paper addresses the need to rethink mental healthcare services from a collective perspective, highlighting the impact of inequality and other social determinants on people’s suffering, while critically examining the role of the current biomedical model in controlling the population and maintaining a socio-economic system that is both unhinged and unhinging.
Keywords: Social psychiatry, Social psychology, Collective health
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