Salud Mental

How to understand and reduce the high prevalence of psychiatric disorders

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Corina Benjet
Kate Scott

Abstract

Since the first waves of representative community surveys of mental disorders, prevalence estimates of psychiatric disorders have been so high as to generate criticism of their believability. Those who have found these estimates shocking conceive mental health as a statistical deviation from normal where only a few should experience diagnosable pathology and thus psychiatric disorder is viewed as a rare, severe phenomenon that clearly separates the ill from the normal.