From cybernetic networks to social narratives: Mapping value in mental health systems beyond individual psychopathology.

Beck, Timothy J.

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“…In the 1970s, second-order cybernetics theory emphasized the role of recursivity, self-reference and self-construction (autopoiesis) in living systems (60). This opened the way to a deeper engagement with social, cultural and linguistic processes of meaning making (39,(61)(62)(63). Agency, subjectivity, and narrativity are given central place in systems approaches that acknowledge the role of communication, storytelling and self-reflection in human experience (45).…”

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“…This work aimed to model learning and adaptation in mechanistic terms and identify forms of pathology with specific types of dysregulation of adaptive systems. Subsequent work applying systems thinking to understand psychopathology was inspired by systems biology ( 32 ), the cybernetics of behavioral control systems ( 33–36 ), complexity theory ( 37 , 38 ), and recognition of the impact of social-structural determinants of health ( 39 ). A recent version of control systems modelling can be found in the active inference approach to explaining specific forms of psychopathology ( 40 ).…”

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A cultural-ecosocial systems view for psychiatry

Gómez-Carrillo

Kirmayer

2023

Front. Psychiatry

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While contemporary psychiatry seeks the mechanisms of mental disorders in neurobiology, mental health problems clearly depend on developmental processes of learning and adaptation through ongoing interactions with the social environment. Symptoms or disorders emerge in specific social contexts and involve predicaments that cannot be fully characterized in terms of brain function but require a larger social-ecological view. Causal processes that result in mental health problems can begin anywhere within the extended system of body-person-environment. In particular, individuals’ narrative self-construal, culturally mediated interpretations of symptoms and coping strategies as well as the responses of others in the social world contribute to the mechanisms of mental disorders, illness experience, and recovery. In this paper, we outline the conceptual basis and practical implications of a hierarchical ecosocial systems view for an integrative approach to psychiatric theory and practice. The cultural-ecosocial systems view we propose understands mind, brain and person as situated in the social world and as constituted by cultural and self-reflexive processes. This view can be incorporated into a pragmatic approach to clinical assessment and case formulation that characterizes mechanisms of pathology and identifies targets for intervention.

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confidence: 99%

A cultural-ecosocial systems view for psychiatry

Gómez-Carrillo

Kirmayer

2023

Front. Psychiatry

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2024

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The nexus between peace and mental well-being: contributions for public happiness

Marujo

2023

MHSI

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Purpose This underscores individual and social implications for how mental disorders and mental well-being are constructed, conceived of and treated. Further, this paper aims to examine positive psychology’s role in supporting the advancement of a broader systemic and contextual approach to mental health. With that aim, this paper connects data on mental health and well-being with peace studies to describe the systems of value and social ecologies underpinning mental disorders, using public happiness/Felicitas Publica as a possible framework to enhance public mental health while intervening at the local level (Bruni and Zamagni, 2007; Marujo and Neto, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2021; Marujo et al., 2019). Design/methodology/approach Theoretical foundations and data on positive peace and mental well-being are described with the intention to propose a systemic, contextual, relational, communitarian, economic and sociopolitical perspective of well-being that goes beyond individual bodies and/or brains and, instead, views mental disorder and mental health as social currency (Beck, 2020). Findings The interventions using dialogic, conversational and community approaches are a possible path to promote peace, mental health and public happiness. Research limitations/implications Examining the interplay between the fields of positive psychology, mental health and cultures of peace, this work contributes to the broadening of research and subsequent intervention topics through transdisciplinary approaches while reinforcing the role of systemic and social determinants and complementing the prevalent medical model and intraindividual perspective of mental health and well-being. Practical implications Adopting positive psychology to address mental health through public happiness concepts and interventions opens opportunities to respond to the ebb and flow of social challenges and life-giving opportunities. Therefore, the paper intends to articulate actor-related, relational, structural and cultural dimensions while moving away from discrete technocratic and individual models and pays attention to the way their implementations are aligned with both individual and social needs. Social implications The work offers an inclusive, equalitarian, politically sensitive approach to positive mental health and positive psychology, bringing forward a structural transformation and human rights-based approach perspective while rethinking the type of social and political solutions to mental health issues. Originality/value Creating a critically constructive debate vis-à-vis the fluidity and complexity of the social world, the paper examines mental health and positive psychology simultaneously from a “hardware” (institutions, infrastructures, services, systems, etc.) and a “software” (i.e. individuals and community/societal relations).

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From cybernetic networks to social narratives: Mapping value in mental health systems beyond individual psychopathology.

Cited by 3 publications

References 68 publications

A cultural-ecosocial systems view for psychiatry

A cultural-ecosocial systems view for psychiatry

Storytelling

The nexus between peace and mental well-being: contributions for public happiness

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