Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Heal the Community, Not the Individual (Video presentation to the Global Mental Health Systems Congress 2026)
Session: “Mental Health as a System-Level Phenomenon: From Individual Pathology to Population Dynamics”
Mental health issues are the hidden pandemic of our time. They are still being treated on the individual level, not on the population level (epidemiologically).
→ How mental health manifests at a population level rather than only at the individual level
Individual or relational (Object Relations, Lacan)
Socialization: modeling, roles, narratives, scripts, norms, mores, conventions, inhibitions, rewards and sanctions
→ The role of societal structures, culture, and environment in shaping psychological outcomes
Family
Culture-bound syndromes
Demarcating normal from abnormal (e.g. religion)
Weaponizing mental illness as social control tool
The role of genius (Eysenck)
→ Where current systems fall short in addressing large-scale mental health challenges
Crisis of Medicalization (recent incarnation: neuroscience, psychopharmacology)
The professionalization of care the sidelining of the village
Mental health as a luxury and mental illness as malingering (or stigma), a character flaw, fully at the behest of the individual
Current psychology is asocial, atomized, abstract, statistical, a pseudo-science. We need to rediscover the literary roots of psychology, create healing texts
→ What shifts are needed to move from individual treatment models to system-aware approaches
We need to heal whole communities, not individuals.
Mental illness is a contagion, we need a germ-like theory of psychology
We need to engender a new holistic communal psychology, de-emphasize the Self, re-emphasize the Other
Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store:
amazon.com/stores/page/60F8EC8A-5812-4007-9F2C-DFA02EA713B3
Heal the Community, Not the Individual (Video presentation to the Global Mental Health Systems Congress 2026)
Session: “Mental Health as a System-Level Phenomenon: From Individual Pathology to Population Dynamics”
Mental health issues are the hidden pandemic of our time. They are still being treated on the individual level, not on the population level (epidemiologically).
→ How mental health manifests at a population level rather than only at the individual level
Individual or relational (Object Relations, Lacan)
Socialization: modeling, roles, narratives, scripts, norms, mores, conventions, inhibitions, rewards and sanctions
→ The role of societal structures, culture, and environment in shaping psychological outcomes
Family
Culture-bound syndromes
Demarcating normal from abnormal (e.g. religion)
Weaponizing mental illness as social control tool
The role of genius (Eysenck)
→ Where current systems fall short in addressing large-scale mental health challenges
Crisis of Medicalization (recent incarnation: neuroscience, psychopharmacology)
The professionalization of care the sidelining of the village
Mental health as a luxury and mental illness as malingering (or stigma), a character flaw, fully at the behest of the individual
Current psychology is asocial, atomized, abstract, statistical, a pseudo-science. We need to rediscover the literary roots of psychology, create healing texts
→ What shifts are needed to move from individual treatment models to system-aware approaches
We need to heal whole communities, not individuals.
Mental illness is a contagion, we need a germ-like theory of psychology
We need to engender a new holistic communal psychology, de-emphasize the Self, re-emphasize the Other
Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store:
amazon.com/stores/page/60F8EC8A-5812-4007-9F2C-DFA02EA713B3
