Thanatology as a resource in the care of addicts and people with mental disorders

Abstract

Introduction

The purpose of this research is to present multidisciplinary and relevance of Thanatology in coping of addictions and other mental disorders.

Objective

The aim of this paper is to analyse the scientific connections that thanatology establishes with other knowledge. With this postulate we present the thanatology and its relations with other disciplines, especially psychiatry, considering that addictions and mental disorders often have as triggering events of loss, death and mourning.

Methods

To develop this research we use the systematic literature review, following the process of research, cataloging, careful evaluation and synthesis of the documentation.

Results

Thanatology is multidisciplinary shares and receives information from other sciences or sectors of knowledge without these modified or enriched. It is interdisciplinary because it originated disciplinary specialty of a mother discipline: Anthropology; and it is transdisciplinary, thence its relevance in research on the realities that revolve around mental disorders and addictions (Fig. 1).

Conclusion

It is important to research on thanatology position in the scientific panorama, given the emergence of this reflection and the relevance of research for its interrelationship with other disciplines.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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