A holistic view of practices in mental health based on latin american bioethics

Abstract

Objective - These notes are intended to investigate mental health practices from the perspective of Latin American bioethics that emerges as the most appropriate view of the context and deep differences of the South in relation to the world, and from a holistic view. Methods: It was a pertinent bibliographical survey was carried out regarding the holistic vision, in order to move, at the last moment, to the considerations regarding mental health practices and the need for paradigm change. The method used was the inductive by which the particularities found in the observed universes were used for the construction of the compilation. The research technique used was the bibliographical one, with special attention to the norms and literature necessary to the elucidation of the variables involved. Results - Throughout the writing it was established the understanding that medicine adopted the Cartesian paradigm in mental health care, seeing the body as a machine and health as the perfect functioning of that machine, whereas the desirable care in mental health should be understood as an inclusive social action that contradicts the mental health care models. Conclusion - It was concluded that a paradigm shift is necessary to achieve comprehensive care in mental health care that is capable of promoting human dignity through the humanization of the treatment and reintegration of these patients into society, in the ecological belt in which they are integrated as being and not machines.