Abstract

As has been widely documented, the human being is the result of his ties. The existence of a human being without networks is not possible. In turn, the network is a result, a human construction. From this reciprocal dynamic, the human being extracts what is necessary both for the configuration of his existence, and his well-being, as well as to evaluate it. In this sense, getting sick or being “healthy” psychologically is inseparable from insertion in networks. The network builds a healthy or sick living being, and provides what gives personal development and what makes sick. At the same time, it evaluates what is healthy or sick and makes the subject feel healthy or sick. In this sense, networks are an increasingly growing space for studies of mental pathologies and human suffering, as well as mental health alternatives and support. Not only in the sense of their own pathologies generated by the networks, but in the generation in networks of concepts and meanings for what should or should not be understood and perceived as pathological and under the protection of connection to exist with a sensation of well-being. The chapter documents some of the discussions on these problems, establishes some conceptual and theoretical references for the study of mental health in networks, and, at the same time, proposes alternative methodologies for approaches to the issue of the relationship between pathos and networks. It is illustrated with some of the results and projects coordinated by the authors in research in this field.