(NEURO)PSYCHIATRIC POWER: THE PSYCHOPATHOLOGIZATION OF EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE BRAIN ERA

Abstract

This research aims to demonstrate how a social reality emerges from the alliances between psychiatry and neurosciences in which psychiatric diagnosis is extremely disseminated, encompassing an ever-increasing number of people and situations. Therefore, it questions how the reformulation of psychiatric power, based on the cerebralist explanation of mental disorders, helps the expansion of everyday psychopathologization processes. The hypothesis is that medical-psychiatric knowledge-power itself has been contributing to its amplification, confirming itself as one of the most sensitive practices today in biopolitical terms. In this sense, applying the research technique of indirect documentation and the deductive method, a critical and interdisciplinary bibliographical review was carried out. Having tested the main hypothesis, it concludes, in the end, that the generalist pathologization of psychic suffering corresponds to a new biological reductionism, which creates a new model of social control, now based on the so-called neuropsychiatry.

Keywords Neurosciences; Subjectivity; Psychiatry; Control; DSM