Department of Cultures, Politics, and Society, University of Turin, Lungo Dora Siena 100, Turin, 10153, Italy.
Cult Med Psychiatry. 2019 Dec;43(4):710-723. doi: 10.1007/s11013-019-09658-1.
The author suggests to consider some important hidden connections in Global Mental Health (GMH) discourse and interventions, above all the political meaning of suffering and symptoms, the power of psychiatric diagnostic categories (both Western and traditional) to name and to occult at once other conflicts, and the implicit criticism expressed by so-called local healing knowledge and its epistemologies. These issues, by emphasizing the importance to explore other ontologies, help to understand the perplexity and resistance that GMH and its agenda meet among many scholars and professionals, who denounce the risks of reproducing and globalizing Western hegemonic values concerning health, illness, and healing.
作者建议考虑全球心理健康（GMH）话语和干预措施中的一些重要的隐性关联，尤其是痛苦和症状的政治意义、精神科诊断类别（西方和传统的）的命名和同时掩盖其他冲突的力量，以及所谓的本地治疗知识及其认识论所表达的隐含批评。这些问题通过强调探索其他本体论的重要性，有助于理解 GMH 及其议程在许多学者和专业人士中遇到的困惑和抵制，他们谴责了复制和全球化西方关于健康、疾病和治疗的霸权价值观的风险。
