مجلة الباحث في العلوم الانسانية والاجتماعية
Volume 15, Numéro 1, Pages 47-58
2024-01-28

Psychosocial Mutations In Algeria And Mental Illnesses: What’s The Relationship?

Authors : Laoudj Mabrouk .

Abstract

Socio-cultural features of the Algerian area, the conditions of precarious lives of its people and the massive phenomenon of acculturation, realize several psychosocial aspects of the relationship between psychosocial changes and the emergence of mental illnesses. Besides the too fast hypothesis psychosocial mutations involved have accentuated the outbreak of mental pathologies seems to us likely. Although the distributions of mental illnesses in all societies are liked to several causative factors at once divers and homogenous: Neurobiochemical, psychological and sociocultural. These are the new mutational data we believe that led psychosocial expeditious upheavals in the Algerian social system: disruption of family break-cell inter-relationship insecurity of children in schools, families of the standing- combat repudiated of woman, education questioned and the population explosion.

Keywords

Folie-Mental illnesses; Psychosocial mutations; Social psychiatric system.