Mental health care in the ecuadorian amerindio tradition.

Abstract

This reflexive essay focuses on the search for the epistemology of the Indo-Ecuadorian ancestryabout mental health care.  The desire is to know the southern Amerindian reality from the ancestral perspective, without any western influence.  This data will let us see that alter through their knowledge, and not through our vision influenced by colonization, even 500 years later. Literature on mental health in South America since the Amerindian,is poor, and in  present literature, a lack of understanding, acceptance, and objectivity has been observed, most of these studies were carried out by foreign investigators in other languages.  Such poorness determines that in the historical records there was no correct information, or if there was, it was not complete.  Such knowledge must be found before they disappear or before we forget that there were races and ethnicities with knowledge that helped them to survive the vicissitudes of colonization.  From the perspective of mental health, only a mentally healthy man could overcome the physical and mental abuse suffered during the conquest. The proposal is to carry out a profound study of understanding on mental health and the techniques used by Indo Americans, especially in Ecuador, in their treatment of mental health to provide science with historical data, not only anecdotal, but also as therapeutic techniques perhaps more powerful that we imagine.