Ist Gesundheit Alles?

Can psychology be defined "only" as a health profession? The presence of psychology in health contexts is indispensable, but reducing it to this presence is inappropriate and impossible; in fact, "objects", "issues" and "contexts" relevant to health are not reducible to the health system and seem to require multidisciplinary and multisectoral approaches. Covid-19 makes it clear that a sectoral view is insufficient to address the devastating impact on society; Covid- 19 represents a challenge that seems to require a reorientation to a psychology which, while dutifully exercising an action to support individual traumas and frailties, cannot afford to reduce its presence and ability to intervene to. It is also along these problematic nuclei that a reterritorialization of psychology develops; in this way, through a not short process of revisiting the epistemological and methodological foundations of the practices and operationalities typical of the profession, psychology can assume a role of autonomous presence and influence in the system of health and social services. We therefore appeal to the Postgraduate Schools in Health Psychology to recognize themselves in the task of guiding this necessary transition towards a full transformative responsibility for psychology.