scholarly journals De-construyendo el Estigma en Salud Mental

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Raúl Velasco
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Chronically Ill ◽  
Mental Health Stigma ◽  
The Public ◽  
Salud Mental ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
El Estigma ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

Resumen: En la mayoría de artículos sobre estigma en Salud Mental se suele obviar el papel estigmatizador de los profesionales y de los procesos protocolares denominados como terapéuticos. Estos procesos regidos por lógicas institucionales acaban resultando en la mayoría de los casos la principal causa generadora de estigma, en tanto entroniza a los pacientes en un doble rol identitario como paciente y enfermo crónico; objeto de estudio, en definitiva, que menoscaba las capacidades de los sujetos para reconstruir su identidad fuera de esa doble identidad enferma. Desde la experiencia viva como persona diagnosticada que ha sufrido los vaivenes de la locura y las perversiones de un sistema sanitario que ha acabado por industrializar el sufrimiento mental, este artículo busca de-construir las principales dinámicas que construyen la imagen social e institucional de las personas con problemática mental. Por contra, a partir del ejemplo de la Asociación Socio-cultural Radio Nikosia y su capacidad a la hora de generar instancias de posibilidades para el ser, el estar y el decir fuera de todo ámbito clínico -de lo que resulta en no pocas ocasiones la re-estructuración identitaria y del propio discurso a través del trabajo constante en medios de comunicación y las intervenciones artístico-políticas, participando colectivamente con y desde la comunidad, en el común más cotidiano de la comunidad- reivindico otra forma de entender el sufrimiento, naturalizándolo en la plaza pública. Deconstructing stigma in mental health Abstract: In most articles about Stigma in Mental Health Stigma is often overlooked role of professionals and stigmatizing process known as therapeutic protocol. These processes governed by institutional logics end resulting in most cases the chief cause in stigma, enthroned as the patients in a double role and identity as chronically ill patient; object of study, ultimately undermining the capacity of subjects to reconstruct their identity outside of that sick double identity. From the living experience as a person diagnosed to have suffered the vagaries of madness and perversion in a health system that has come to industrialize mental suffering, this article seeks to deconstruct the main dynamics that build social and institutional image of people with Mental problems. In contrast, using the example of the Socio-cultural Association Radio Nicosia and its ability to generate instances when possibilities for being, being and saying out of all clinical scope in what is on many occasions the identity and re-structuring of the discourse itself through constant work in media and artistic-political interventions, collectively engaged with and from the community, in the most ordinary common-vindicate community another way to understand suffering, naturalizing in the public sphere.

scholarly journals Hegemonía y resistencia en el espacio mediático: los medios de minorías étnicas

2020 ◽  
pp. 131-141
Author(s):  
Alicia Ferrández-Ferrer ◽  
Jessica Retis
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Media Space ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The One ◽  
Transnational Space ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

There is a broad academic consensus on the role of the media in promoting and maintaining hegemony. However, the media can also be used to counter hegemonic discourses and empower people who have no voice. This is the case of ethnic minority media. The development of media by these groups has contributed to their inclusion into the public sphere, understood as the space in which citizen issues are articulated and negotiated, and where the struggle related to the imposition of hegemonic meanings takes place. In this context, they have become a tool in the fight against cultural hegemony, exclusion, and discrimination. Considering their enormous potential to counteract not only the biased and criminalizing representation of ethnic minorities in the mainstream media but also the “discursive exclusion” of these groups, the academic literature has described minority media as “alternative,” in two aspects: on the one hand, in relation to the generalist media, and on the other, in relation to their potential to offer new voices and discourses on social reality. This work focuses on elucidating the extent to which one can consider this type of media as “alternative,” considering that, despite their emancipatory potential, they are subject to the tensions and contradictions of the media space, which is emerging as a very complex space, influenced by other fields of power, e.g., political and economic. For these media, tensions are also generated in the transnational space, adding enormous complexity to the field. Resumen Existe un amplio consenso académico sobre el papel de los medios de comunicación en el fomento y mantenimiento de la hegemonía. Pero los medios también se pueden utilizar para contrarrestar los discursos hegemónicos y empoderar a las personas que no tienen voz. Este es el caso de los medios de minorías étnicas. El desarrollo de medios por parte de estos grupos ha contribuido a su inserción en la esfera pública, entendida como el espacio en el que se articulan y se negocian las cuestiones ciudadanas, y donde se produce la lucha por la imposición de significados hegemónicos sobre la realidad social. De este modo, se han convertido en una herramienta para la lucha contra la hegemonía cultural, la exclusión y la discriminación de colectivos minoritarios. Con su enorme potencial para contrarrestar no solo la representación sesgada y criminalizadora de las minorías étnicas en los medios de comunicación generalistas, sino también la “exclusión discursiva” de estos colectivos, la literatura científica ha calificado a los medios de minorías como “alternativos”, y ello en una doble vertiente: por un lado, en relación a los medios generalistas, y por otro, en relación a su potencial para ofrecer nuevas voces y discursos sobre la realidad social. Este trabajo se centra en dilucidar hasta qué punto podemos considerar a este tipo de medios como “alternativos”, teniendo en cuenta que, a pesar de su potencial emancipador, se encuentran sometidos a las tensiones y contradicciones del espacio mediático, que se perfila como un espacio muy complejo, influido por otros campos de poder, como son el político y el económico. En estos medios, dichas tensiones se generan además en el espacio transnacional, aportando una enorme complejidad.

scholarly journals Diferencias de la población general en relación a los conoci- mientos, actitudes y conductas hacia el estigma en salud mental

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Ana María Moreno Herrero ◽  
Francisca Sánchez Sánchez ◽  
Manuel López de Lemus Sarmiento
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
General Population ◽  
Mental Health Stigma ◽  
City Population ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Salud Mental ◽  
El Estigma

Resumen: Se estudia una muestra de 152 sujetos de la población de Almería capital con respecto al Estigma en Salud Mental con el objetivo de diseñar intervenciones anti-estigma específicas. Para ello se operativiza el Estigma en tres constructos: Conocimiento, Actitudes y Conducta utilizando las escalas MAKS, CAMI y RIBS respectivamente. Los resultados indican que los más jóvenes, menores de treinta y cinco años, son los que de forma significativa (p< .05) cuentan con menos conocimientos en Salud Mental relacionado con el Estigma. Así mismo se encuentran diferencias significativas entre sexos en referencia a la intención de conductas estigmatizantes (p= .049) y de actitudes estigmatizantes (p= .006) siendo los hombres los que tienden a exhibir intención de conducta y actitudes más estigmatizantes. Estos resultados junto con otros que nos muestran una correlación significativa entre Conocimientos y Conducta y por otro lado entre Actitudes y Conducta, nos sirven de guía en el diseño de intervenciones encaminadas a reducir el estigma en salud mental. Differences in general population on knowledge, attitudes and behaviour related to mental health stigma Abstract: Stigma in mental health is studied in a sample of 152 subjects of Almería city population with the aim of designing specific anti-stigma campaigns. For this, Stigma is operatized in three constructs: Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviour, using MAKS, CAMI and RIBS scales for these. Results show that the younger group, under thirty-five years old are less knowledgeable about mental health related to stigma, showing a significant difference (p< .05). Moreover, we found significant differences in gender regarding the intention of stigmatizing behaviour (p=.049) as well as attitudes (p= .006) where men have more stigmatizing behaviour and attitudes than women. These results together with those that show a significant correlation between knowledge and behaviour, as well as between attitudes and behaviour will be used as a guide to design interventions aimed to reduce stigma in mental health.

scholarly journals The role of social media in reducing stigma and discrimination

2015 ◽  
Vol 206 (6) ◽  
pp. 443-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Betton ◽  
Rohan Borschmann ◽  
Mary Docherty ◽  
Stephen Coleman ◽  
Mark Brown ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Mental Health Stigma ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Media Practices

SummaryThis editorial explores the implications of social media practices whereby people with mental health problems share their experiences in online public spaces and challenge mental health stigma. Social media enable individuals to bring personal experience into the public domain with the potential to affect public attitudes and mainstream media. We draw tentative conclusions regarding the use of social media by campaigning organisations.

scholarly journals Mental health stigma in a multicultural society: the case of Israel

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ora Nakash ◽  
Itzhak Levav
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Mental Health Stigma ◽  
Social Mechanisms ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
People With Mental Illness ◽  
Salud Mental ◽  
Heavy Burden ◽  
El Estigma ◽  
Available Information

Abstract: The paper reviews the available information on the stigma associated with mental health in a multicultural society such as that of Israel, where as usually, no group of the population is free of this complex and ubiquitous social phenomenon. To try to understand the process is reviewed the available scientific literature on the prevalence of stigma in mental health in different population sectors, putting it in relation with the knowledge that social psychology offers on social mechanisms of production and perpetuation of the stigma. Finally suggests some directions to face the heavy burden of stigma in people with mental illness. Salud Mental en una sociedad multicultural: el caso de Israel Resumen: El artículo revisa la información disponible sobre el estigma relacionado con problemas de salud mental en una sociedad multicultural como es la de Israel, en la que como sucede habitualmente, ningún grupo de la población está libre de este complejo y ubicuo fenómeno social. Para intentar entender el proceso se revisa la literatura científica disponible sobre prevalencia del estigma en salud mental en distintos sectores poblacionales, poniéndola en relación con los conocimientos que la psicología social ofrece sobre los mecanismos sociales de producción y perpetuación del estigma. Finalmente se sugieren algunas direcciones para enfrentar la pesada carga del estigma en las personas con enfermedad mental.

scholarly journals Mental health stigma: the role of dualism, uncertainty, causation and treatability

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. e100498
Author(s):  
Javed Latoo ◽  
Minal Mistry ◽  
Majid Alabdulla ◽  
Ovais Wadoo ◽  
Farida Jan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Stigma

scholarly journals The Clash of Cultures of Radical Enlightenment and Humanism Open to Transcendence. The Perspective of Pope Benedict XVI

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 460
Author(s):  
Janusz Węgrzecki
Keyword(s):  
Positive Answer ◽  
Political Anthropology ◽  
The Public ◽  
Pope Benedict Xvi ◽  
Benedict Xvi ◽  
Radical Enlightenment ◽  
Clash Of Cultures ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Role Of Religion

The article analyzes the content of the Pope’s speeches discussing, reconstructing and interpreting the concept of two dominant western cultures and their mutual relationships to the perspective of Pope Benedict XVI, who calls them the culture of radical enlightenment and the culture of humanism that is open to transcendence. The article identifies fundamental contentious issues including: anthropological issues, human dignity, political anthropology, freedom, reason, its rationality, and the role of religion in the public sphere. Thus, the article provides a positive answer to the question of whether the perspective of the clash of cultures outlined by Samuel Huntington can be cognitively used in interpreting the contrast of cultures presented from the perspective of Pope Benedict XVI. However, contrary to Huntington, who describes the clash of western cultures with other, non-western cultures, Pope Benedict XVI claims that there is a clash between two dominant western cultures.

The gender dimension of the 2020 Belarusian protest: Does female engagement contribute to the establishment of gender equality?

2021 ◽  
pp. 2336825X2110291
Author(s):  
Vasil Navumau ◽  
Olga Matveieva
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Presidential Elections ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Depth Interviews

One of the distinctive traits of the Belarusian ‘revolution-in-the-making’, sparked by alleged falsifications during the presidential elections and brutal repressions of protest afterwards, has been a highly visible gender dimension. This article is devoted to the analysis of this gender-related consequences of protest activism in Belarus. Within this research, the authors analyse the role of the female movement in the Belarusian uprising and examine, and to which extent this involvement expands the public sphere and contributes to the changes in gender-related policies. To do this, the authors conducted seven semi-structured in-depth interviews with the gender experts and activists – four before and four after the protests.

scholarly journals Contested Numbers: Census Controversies and the Press in 1960s Nigeria

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Gerardo Serra ◽  
Morten Jerven
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
The State ◽  
Population Census ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Press ◽  
Distribution Of Resources ◽  
The Public Sphere

Abstract This article reconstructs the controversies following the release of the figures from Nigeria's 1963 population census. As the basis for the allocation of seats in the federal parliament and for the distribution of resources, the census is a valuable entry point into postcolonial Nigeria's political culture. After presenting an overview of how the Africanist literature has conceptualized the politics of population counting, the article analyses the role of the press in constructing the meaning and implications of the 1963 count. In contrast with the literature's emphasis on identification, categorization, and enumeration, our focus is on how the census results informed a broader range of visual and textual narratives. It is argued that analysing the multiple ways in which demographic sources shape debates about trust, identity, and the state in the public sphere results in a richer understanding of the politics of counting people and narrows the gap between demographic and cultural history.

scholarly journals Introduction: Publics and Participation in Early Modern Britain

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 709-730 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura A. M. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
Modern Britain ◽  
Institutional Variation ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Important Shift

AbstractThe deconstruction of what is termed “the public sphere” in recent decades has resulted in an important shift in scholarly attention towards networks and forms of association. This article explores how greater sensitivity to the unstable and ephemeral nature of “publics,” combined with a stronger awareness of the role of cultural exchange, has undoubtedly enriched our understanding of early modern politics. Some analytical precision has, nonetheless, been lost. A justifiable emphasis on the artificiality of the territorial borders that have defined units of enquiry has occurred at the expense of deeper consideration of the cultural boundaries that dictated the terms on which people could participate in and shape public discourse. Study of the British archipelago can offer new ways of thinking about these problems. Linguistic and ethnic differences, the search for religious concord as well as the reality of confessional division, institutional variation, and the consequences of London's increasing dominance of the archipelago, are key facets of the reassessments undertaken here. The article concludes by reflecting on how interactions between varieties of “public” and other forms of association can nuance our understanding of early modern state formation.

The NGOization of Space: Dilemmas of Social Change, Planning Policy, and the Israeli Public Sphere

10.1068/d459t ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 745-758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haim Yacobi
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Planning Policy ◽  
Strategic Goals ◽  
The Public Sphere

This paper offers a critical analysis of the role of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that deal with planning policy in general and in Israel in particular. The inherent dilemmas of the different NGOs' tactics and strategies in reshaping the public sphere are examined, based on a critical reading of Habermas's conceptualization of the public sphere. The main objective of this paper is to investigate to what extent, and under which conditions, the NGOization of space—that is, the growing number of nongovernmental actors that deal with the production of space both politically and tangibly—has been able to achieve strategic goals which may lead towards social change.

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