The author, sharing the definition of community in its broadest sense as a meeting place between individual suffering and social suffering, in order to outline the perspectives of community mental health, invites us to take into account multiple perspectives. Among these, there are demographic ones that also provide information on the relational and social dimensions within the community (such as the progressive aging of the population, the increase in single-parent households and therefore the dimension of loneliness, the presence of increasingly marked inter-culturality, characterized by the presence of first and second generation migrants, which impacts on adolescent youth distress etc.). The author highlights the need for psychological disciplines to use an understandable language to interact at the political, institutional and administrative levels, with the aim of pursuing a common interest, taking into account needs in community terms and promoting wide-ranging interventions, which interconnect apparently distant disciplinary fields (e.g. mental health, economics, demography...).