Lanús, experiencias formativas interdisciplinarias: Antecedentes de la salud mental comunitaria

Abstract

This article characterizes the epistemological assumptions in the training proposals of the Psychopathology Service of the Aráoz Alfaro Hospital ("the Lanús") and the postgraduate courses in Community Mental Health of the National University of Lanús (SMC UNLa). With qualitative methodologies and triangulation of sources from a comprensivist paradigm, we conducted 6 interviews with referents, 74 surveys of students and graduates of the postgraduate courses; and we surveyed 92 documents. The results highlight the implications of the Lanus in management areas, design of national policies and conformation of the Community Mental Health Area at UNLa. Both experiences with their singularities share the same epistemological basis and include formative aspects that make visible and enhance alternative historical constructions in the field of mental health as well as replicate them from the interdisciplinary and participatory experience in and with the community. These are central aspects to think reform processesf, resistance and empowerment in the face of oppressive, desubjective processes that attempt to destroy subjectivities and embodied memories.