La especificidad de la función del psicólogo en el campo de la discapacidad mental

Alejandro Martín Contino

doi:10.5354/0719-0581.2010.17114

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The specificity of psychologist’s function in the field of mental disability

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Alejandro Martín Contino Universidad Nacional de Rosario

Vol. 19 No. 2 (2010)

https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-0581.2010.17114

Abstract

The present work analyzes the politic dimension of the psy function, as well as psychologist's function in the field of mental disability. From the analysis of the institutional devices and asylums practices, a prevalence of the individual model in the direction of traditional treatments can be stated. Psychologist's function could be conceived from a des-institunalising perspective, in a way to question the pathologization, medicalization and institutionalization of disability. From this logic, a different understanding of current difficulties in autonomy and integration could be envisioned. Finally, the ethical-political aspect of praxis would favour self-managed movements in disability situations, a transformation that could only be possible from the social model framework.

Keywords:

Psi function, mental disability, desinstitutionalization

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Contino, A. M. (2010). The specificity of psychologist’s function in the field of mental disability. Revista De Psicología, 19(2), Pág. 157–182. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-0581.2010.17114