Abstract
Drawing on an ethnographic study in southern Brazil, this paper explores how therapists' attempts to "resist bioreductionist" pharmaceutical use both succeed and crumble. Using a comparative framing, I show that pharmaceuticalization can become an anesthetizing "lid" that interacts with young people's polarizing micro-politics and is an outgrowth of multi-generational medico-political family histories. This lid, however, is not air-tight and exceptionalities are born out of these very same histories. I argue that both pharmaceuticalization and exceptions to it emerge not through "resistance" to biopsychiatric logics but from the transformative possibilities that the patterned co-production of social, political, and psychiatric life affords.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 131-54 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | História, Ciencias, Saúde. Manguinhos |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 24 Mar 2016 |
Keywords
- Adolescent
- Adolescent Psychiatry/history
- Anthropology, Cultural
- Biological Psychiatry
- Brazil
- Child
- Child Rearing/history
- Female
- History, 20th Century
- Humans
- Male
- Mental Disorders/drug therapy
- Psychology, Adolescent
- Young Adult