Laura Trujillo Tapia2026-03-222026-03-222016http://ojs.uab.edu.bo/ojs/index.php/scientia/article/view/13https://andeanlibrary.org/handle/123456789/71245Both conceptions of health - illness as mental health-mental illness are held in three approaches, which in turn generate different levels of anal- ysis. In this present work, we review these approaches and from them we re- flect the need to take into account a perspective which allows as under- stand and explain, in a deeper way, the reality about health and mental health, to avoid superficial or fragmentary analyzes that may contribute to the reproduction of misconceptions that restrict the possibilities of social change.esPerspective (graphical)Mental healthMental illnessPsychologyPsychoanalysisPsychiatryarticle