title: Historical perspectives of the role of Spain and Portugal in today's status of psychiatry and mental health in Latin America.
abstract: This paper shows how the community of Latin-American and Spanish psychiatry represents a solid platform for the so-called 'continental thought' to meet the analytical Anglo-Saxon thought. It reviews what both Latin America and the Spanish and Portuguese languages represent in the American continent; the relation between Spanish psychiatry and Spanish-speaking psychiatry in America during the twentieth century; the reality of psychiatric research and profession in Latin America; the evolution of Spanish psychiatry in the twentieth century from the post civil war diaspora to the beginning of the twenty-first century, and research on mental health in Spain and the foreseeable future.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. ebaca@ono.com
authors.forename: Enrique
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Baca
authors.forename: José
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lázaro
authors.forename: Juan C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Hernández-Clemente
mesh_terms: D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D007843:Latin America / Q000453:epidemiology; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D008603:Mental Health / Q000266:history*; D011174:Portugal; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history* / Q000639:trends*; D013030:Spain