The novel coronavirus is situated in a historical moment where ideological perspectives influence or determine the delimitations and role of science. The veracity or falsity of information is a crucial axis of analysis to consider in the COVID-19 pandemic. The consequences of this axis have determined how many lives will be preserved or no. The relationship between different scenarios is valid and essential. However, it is necessary careful not to reduce different conjectures in different moments. These reflections imply to develop and mature many areas of psychiatry and mental health. In this way, the complex scenario that the world is due now requires complex bases to analyses the factors that cross the individual experience from as many perspectives as possible, including mental health. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Pandemic events and psychiatry: Some specificities and singularities in COVID-19