Mad in Puerto Rico: Psychology and mental health in Puerto Rico have largely focused on addressing the manifestations of emotional distress from a biomedical, pathologizing, and colonial perspective, rather than recognizing how the country’s sociopolitical infrastructure creates fertile ground for emotional distress. This article covers a dissertation submitted as a requirement for a degree in Economics, which evaluates how short-term rentals affect Puerto Ricans. The issue of gentrification has been very prominent in Puerto Rico in recent years. It is a phenomenon that stems from political, not individual, decisions.
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