MENTAL HEALTH SPOTLIGHT:

Sexuality, Anxiety, Self-Destructive Behaviors, and College

Abstract

The field of mental health is diverse. I dare say that this is its main characteristic. When we think about subjectivity, health and illness, we can do so from many perspectives, scientific or otherwise. On the side of Science, in addition to Biomedicine, we can mention, among others: Psychology, Psychiatry, Social Sciences, etc. There are those who hope to see this diversity reduced to a single epistemological paradigm, supported by the principles of just one of the many sciences that currently constitute the field of mental health. And there are those who understand that this diversity is precisely what makes mental health such a unique and challenging field of knowledge. Among them are those who do not back down from the complexity of issues such as sexuality, violence and psychological distress.

Volume 17 of the Journal of Biomedical Research (RIB), MENTAL HEALTH SPOTLIGHT: Sexuality, Anxiety, Self-Destructive Behaviors, and College, shows that it is part of the science team that works to defend the plurality of mental health. Let us take, for example, the article that reviews the literature on behaviors associated with the consumption of pornographic material, seeking to answer the difficult question about the impacts that these behaviors can have on the experience of sexuality. The article “Anxiety in (the) university context” seeks to investigate how academic experiences can also promote this very contemporary and localized form of psychological suffering. Among other publications that will pique curiosity and scientific activity.