[PUBLICATION] “Mental health: from disorders to well-being”: new Pop’Sciences article series

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”. Mental health can be seen as a continuum ranging from well-being and personal fulfillment to situations of reactive psychological distress, and even to more or less debilitating psychiatric disorders. Mental health is thus achieved through the quality of relationships maintained in the social, economic, biological, and environmental context of each individual. How does the quality of this relationship system affect mental health?

To try and find an answer to this question, Pop’Sciences explored the work of philosopher Élodie Giroux, met with historian Isabelle Von Bueltzingsloewen, professors Nicolas Franck, Frédéric Haesebaert and Benjamin Rolland, all of whom are psychiatrists, as well as psychology professor Rebecca Shankland, neuroscientist Guillaume Sescousse, sociologists Benoît Eyraud and Nicolas Chambon, political scientist Gwen Le Goff and clinical psychologist Nathalie Dumet.
 

The articles include

#1 Rethinking health

#2 Mental health: an ever-changing field

#3 Recovering from mental illness

#4 Autonomy: a human right

#5 Psychological trauma

#6 Addiction: there’s no such thing as fatality

#7 Orthorexia: when healthy eating is detrimental to overall health

Find out more on the Pop’Sciences website (in French)