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• Main Author: Santos, Kwame Yonatan P. [UNESP]
• Publication Date: 2012
• Other Authors: Dionísio, Gustavo Henrique [UNESP], Yasui, Silvio [UNESP]
• Format: Article
• Language: por
• Source: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Download full: http://incubadora.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/cbsm/article/view/2129; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/126830
• topic: Medicalization; Psychotropic substances; Subjectivity; Medicalização; Psicofármacos; Subjetividade

Is it possible to encapsulate in a pill the benefits of an analytical treatment? Quickly suspending the symptoms? Since the nineteenth century psychiatry has offered to the so called mentally ill "medieval forms" of treatment, as is the case of institutional admissions, the straightjacket, lobotomies, shock treatments, etc. What has changed since the mid-twentieth century advent of chlorpromazine, the first psychoactive drug, and the "psychopharmacological revolution"? Today with the Psychiatric Reform mental institutions admissions are being gradually abandoned, yet we see the rise of psychoactive drugs as protagonists in mental health treatment. This theoretical essay is an extension of a master's thesis in progress on the long-term use of psychotropic drugs. It falls within the field of mental health, specifically in the debate on the medicalization of society in contemporary processes of subjectivation of the psychiatric clinics and the treatment modalities currently offered to individuals in their suffering-existence. Thus, we seek to problematize this degrading psychiatric clinics, which produces what we call the pill-subject.