This study aims at discussing the relationship between ideology and psychopathology starting from of mundane man's perspective placed by the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty (1964,1966,1970). As it understands man existing in mutual constitution with the world, it also gives place to a reading of psychopathology as emergent in constitution with the world, or the culture (Moreira, 1993, 1999; Moreira & Aramburu, 1999).
Some examples of ideologies are examined or forms of thinking in the contemporary culture that leads to the emergence of mental pathologies, as well as cross-cultural inquiries (Draguns, 1990; Cooper & Sartorius, 1991; Schumaker, 1996) that shows the narrow relationship between ideology and psychopathology besides phenomenological publications about the relationship among psychotherapy, psychopathology and culture (Tatossian, 1997, Doukhan, 1998; Dörr, 1995).
Ideology; psychopathology; contemporary culture