De la custodia a los cuidados: una perspectiva histórica de la enfermería en salud mental

Abstract

This work has the goal of clarifying the differences between two concepts: "Watching" and "care" with the purpose of identifying the differences among a model of repressive psychiatric system (very similar to penitentiary system), and a humanistic model of psychiatric system whose conceptual emblem is the "care". Initial hypothesis: mental health cares are only possible in the context of societies politic and scientifically democratic. Method: The focuses and derivative positions of the social and structural history have guided the heuristic process and the hermeneutic one. The consulted sources have been, essentially, normative. Conclusions: The fact that in Spain mental health cares have been developed, essentially, in democratic periods reinforces the thesis that mental cares, democracy and educational development constitute three closely linked processes.

Keywords

• Custodia
• Cuidados
• Asistencia psiquiátrica
• Salud mental