AFJHSS African Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 2789-3413 SvedbergOpen afjhss-2-1-001 10.51483/AFJHSS.2.1.2022.1-6 Research Note Pathogenic Societies and Collective Madness: A Critical Look at Normalcy TorrentsEnric Garcia 1 * 1Medical Anthropology Research Center, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain. E-mail: enric.garcia@urv.cat *Corresponding author: Enric Garcia Torrent, Medical Anthropology Research Center, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, xxxxx. E-mail: enric.garcia@urv.cat 02 2022 2 1 1 6 Abstract

This paper addresses the need to rethink mental healthcare services from a collective perspective, highlighting the impact of inequality and other social determinants on people’s suffering, while critically examining the role of the current biomedical model in controlling the population and maintaining a socio-economic system that is both unhinged and unhinging.

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