A pause to think about the field of mental health. Reflections from the Mental Health and Human Rights Observatory.

Abstract

Since the Covid-19 pandemic began to take hold in our country, through the Observatory of Mental Health and Human Rights we have been recording, documenting and organizing diverse information regarding the field of mental health in Córdoba in this particular context: producing materials with recommendations, linking up with different people and organizations to draw a collective mapping of this socio-health crisis, publishing academic and journalistic articles with some reflections, participating in various spaces to try to influence politically, etc. However, in this article, a few months before the Observatory celebrates its first decade of existence, and because of the need to
pause to rethink our role and our practices as social actors belonging to the mental health field, we decided to carry out a retrospective of our work that recovers the tensions of the field that still persist more than ten years after the sanctioning of the mental health laws. Finally, we will rehearse some reflections and
Finally, we will try out some reflections and questions that open up in these unique times marked by the pandemic.