Psychiatry, Anthropology and Interdisciplinarity: Encounters in Addressing the Disease in Cultural Diversity

Abstract

I propose and discuss three models of intercultural therapy in mental health, which include some of the intercultural practices in this field in Belgium and Spain, from the analysis of three case studies belonging to the cultural formulation of psychiatric diagnosis clinical praxis in Puerta de Hierro University Hospital (Madrid), the ethnopsychiatric therapy in Brugmann University Hospital, and intercultural anti-psychiatry praxis in community peul houses (Brussels). In turn, these practices are analyzed from the point of view of a critical dialogue of knowledge, synthesis and production of new knowledge and disciplinary questionings of their approaches which are, respectively, transdisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and antidisciplinary.