The Mental Health of the Portuguese
No. 82 MAY 2018
Treatment doesn’t work. There’s no solution to this.» Until recently, this was still the prevailing idea about mental illness. Even more so: mental illnesses were most often associated with prejudices and myths and nobody even considered the idea that it was a health issue. In 2018, what do we talk about when we talk about mental health in Portugal? In an essay that focuses particularly, but not only, on the Portuguese reality, it traces the changes in the concepts of mental health and mental illness, it tells the story of scientific progress, treatment and prevention and summarises the most recent information on the causes, diagnoses and impacts – physical, social and human – of mental disease, one of the main public health challenges of the 21st century.
Book recommended by the National Reading Plan.
Treatment doesn’t work. There’s no solution to this.» Until recently, this was still the prevailing idea about mental illness. Even more so: mental illnesses were most often associated with prejudices and myths and nobody even considered the idea that it was a health issue. In 2018, what do we talk about when we talk about mental health in Portugal? In an essay that focuses particularly, but not only, on the Portuguese reality, it traces the changes in the concepts of mental health and mental illness, it tells the story of scientific progress, treatment and prevention and summarises the most recent information on the causes, diagnoses and impacts – physical, social and human – of mental disease, one of the main public health challenges of the 21st century.
Book recommended by the National Reading Plan.
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Dimensions
8 × 130 × 200 mm
ISBN
978-989-8863-64-5
Book available only in Portuguese
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