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The interconnected polycrisis of war and climate change acts as a threat multiplier for mental health, requiring an integrative geopsychiatric framework to align clinical, humanitarian, and policy responses. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.SYNTHESIS. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To examine the interconnected mental health impacts of armed conflict and climate change using an integrative geopsychiatric framework.

August 26, 2026Middle East Current PsychiatryOpen Access

War, climate change, and mental health: a geopsychiatric perspective on an emerging global polycrisis

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JTJulio Torales GSGuillermo Sequera GEGladys Estigarribia

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Narrative review demonstrates how war and climate change interact to exacerbate mental health disorders globally, highlighting the need for integrated psychiatric and climate adaptation policies.

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To examine the interconnected mental health impacts of armed conflict and climate change using an integrative geopsychiatric framework.
Conducted a critical narrative and conceptual review synthesizing literature across conflict psychiatry, displacement studies, climate-mental health research, and humanitarian mental health.
Constructed a multi-level conceptual model linking macro-level geopolitical and environmental factors to meso-level systems and micro-level clinical vulnerabilities.
Armed conflict generates diverse psychiatric burdens, including common and severe mental disorders, non-diagnostic psychological suffering, disability, and intergenerational effects.
Climate change acts as a threat multiplier that accelerates resource insecurity, forced displacement, institutional breakdown, and health system strain, disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations.
The framework highlights reciprocal pathways shaping risk and recovery, supporting the integration of mental health into climate adaptation, conflict prevention, and humanitarian response policies.

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Torales et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8e9b21451774b83f3b39f3 https://doi.org/10.1186/s43045-026-00668-5

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August 26, 2026Middle East Current PsychiatryOpen Access

War, climate change, and mental health: a geopsychiatric perspective on an emerging global polycrisis

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JTJulio Torales GSGuillermo Sequera GEGladys Estigarribia

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Overview

Narrative review demonstrates how war and climate change interact to exacerbate mental health disorders globally, highlighting the need for integrated psychiatric and climate adaptation policies.

Key Points

To examine the interconnected mental health impacts of armed conflict and climate change using an integrative geopsychiatric framework.
Conducted a critical narrative and conceptual review synthesizing literature across conflict psychiatry, displacement studies, climate-mental health research, and humanitarian mental health.
Constructed a multi-level conceptual model linking macro-level geopolitical and environmental factors to meso-level systems and micro-level clinical vulnerabilities.
Armed conflict generates diverse psychiatric burdens, including common and severe mental disorders, non-diagnostic psychological suffering, disability, and intergenerational effects.
Climate change acts as a threat multiplier that accelerates resource insecurity, forced displacement, institutional breakdown, and health system strain, disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations.
The framework highlights reciprocal pathways shaping risk and recovery, supporting the integration of mental health into climate adaptation, conflict prevention, and humanitarian response policies.

Cite This Study

Torales et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8e9b21451774b83f3b39f3 https://doi.org/10.1186/s43045-026-00668-5

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