Ambrósio EO, Oliveira CF, Marçon L, Andrade HS. On psychopharmacological subjectivation. Interface (Botucatu). 2025; 29: e250109 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1590/interface.250109
Abstracts
In dialogue with critical reflections on psychiatry and clinical mental health practices, we aim to reflect on the contemporary neurobiochemical subject and the truth discourses surrounding psychotropic drugs, which have been increasingly used, especially in specific contexts and population groups. This mode of (self)understanding of the human being is intrinsically linked to a “pharmacological imagination,” in which knowledge of the brain progresses alongside the creation of pharmacological methods to intervene in it and neoliberal ways of managing life and health. Finally, we aim to problematize the consequences of this psychopharmacological subjectivation, which may reduce the purpose of clinical practices in mental health to the neurochemical suppression of symptoms and individual performance.
Keywords
Psychopharmacology; Psychiatry; Medicalization; Mental health
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