Psicología y salud comunitaria durante la transición democrática

Resumen

This study analyses the discourse, models and professional practice of psychologists in community health in Madrid from the end of the Franco era to 1982, that is, during the political transition to democracy. As regards the first of these, it analyses the critical discourse of students and young graduates, the community perspective of young professionals and the beginnings of corporative discourse. In the second case, the models discussed are the critical ones referred to as psychoanalysis and Marxism and scientific psychology. The most relevant aspects of professional practice referred to are family planning, Psychology's experiences in poor areas and the field of community (mental) health (later within the network of the Municipal Centres for Promotion of Health), and the Syndrome Toxic Units. Finally, there is a reflection upon the incorporation of a new type of scientific and professional discourse -psychology in community health in Madrid- in relation to the demands for social change and health as quality of community life, to critical political discourse on the reform of the health system, to the search for a new social role for doctors and to the 'ideologisation' of psychiatric discourse