Loneliness and mental health: Social and clinical precisiones and ambiguites (with emphasis an periods of crisis

• Autores: Alarcón-Guzmán, Renato D., Matos-Retamozo, Luis
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2025
• Institución: Fundación Instituto Hipólito Unanue
• Repositorio: Diagnóstico
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistadiagnostico.fihu.org.pe:article/557
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistadiagnostico.fihu.org.pe/index.php/diagnostico/article/view/557
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Soledad; existencia; emoción; separación; cultura social; ontogenia; Loneliness; existence; emotion; separation; social culture; ontogenics

The idea and the concept of Loneliness constitute a vast field of reflections and elaborations in different areas of academic discussion. Beyond its individual and social (or collective) meanings in different languages, Loneliness is a matter of epistemological conceptualizations, artistic experiences, psychological-emotional explorations, and ontogenicphilosophical-metaphysical conceptions. Following a conceptual introductory exposition, this article centers on the several clinical implications of the term under study as a subjective state of discomfort and suffering, a symptom and/or syndrome present in a variety of nosological entities with diverse etio-pathogenic mechanisms and more or less complex modalities of therapeutic management. As a gnoseological background, its consideration as a new Social Determinant of Health and Mental Health makes of Loneliness, as well, a transcending topic of inquiries about social crises and meaningful studies of contemporary socio-cultural disciplines.