The presentation of this report provides, by itself, a clear picture of its scope. There are three questions that anticipate its direction and reveal the need for, and the importance of, this “collective research effort”.
As pointed out by Documenta, in our country “mental health has been an invisible issue in the public agenda relegated to the field of specialized medicine, with a limited vision that conceives it as the presence of a set of symptoms that must be controlled by means of a pharmacological approach and sometimes psychotherapeutic tools”. This vision underestimates the scope of the social determinants of mental health and, upon doing so, perpetuates “a predominantly clinical approach that ignores the importance of social bonds, inclusion in the community, social justice, equal opportunities and respect for the human rights of all persons”.