We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Normality and mental health: The ethical dimension.
- Authors
Lolas Stepke, Fernando
- Abstract
This article applies the concept of normality, in both its descriptive and normative connotations, to the field of mental health, emphasizing its ethical undertones in different cultural and situational contexts. Ethics is defined as the linguistic justification of morals, and bioethics is characterized by arguments based on dialogical, discursive, and deliberative processes. Bioethical decision-making influences human relationships and has implications for diagnosis, prognosis, interventions, and evaluation of therapeutic results and outcomes. Normality in mental health should be reformulated on bioethical principles to avoid being a source of stigma and discrimination, at a time when human diversity and cultural change impose a redefinition of conceptual boundaries and depathologization of different forms of behavior and experience.
- Subjects
BIOETHICS; MENTAL health; SOCIAL stigma; DISCRIMINATION (Sociology); INTERPERSONAL relations; HUMAN behavior; SOCIAL change; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Salud Mental, 2023, Vol 46, Issue 5, p241
- ISSN
0185-3325
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17711/SM.0185-3325.2023.030