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Abstract

The current situation of mental illnesses is analyzed and described in this article, identifying the permanence of groups of disorders throughout the times. New entities or illnesses are identified, which are linked to social conditions of vulnerability and that appear in nonmedical or non-psychiatric settings. Warning is given against the risk of medicalizing problems that to social processes of exclusion that generate risk situations.