Vol. 17 No. 1 (2025): sexualityMental Health Spotlight: Sexuality, Anxiety, Self-DEstrutive Behaviors, and College

Editorial

     The field of mental health is diverse. I would venture to say that this is its main characteristic. When thinking about subjectivity, health and illness, we can do so from many perspectives, scientific or otherwise. From 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 or psychological suffering.
     Volume 17 of the Journal of Biomedical Research (RIB) shows that it is part of the Science team that works to defend the plurality of mental health. Let us look, for example, at the article that carries out a literature review 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 widespread form of psychological suffering. And one last example: thinking from the Psychology proposed by the Person-Centered Approach (PCA), the article “Self-harm and suicide: is it possible to resignify the self?” takes a clinical case as a qualitative methodology of analysis, inviting us to think not only about this severe form of psychic suffering, but about the ways in which Psychology can make science.