Transtorno de pânico um estudo sobre as matrizes sociais de seu surgimento: a sociedade do risco e a construção contemporânea de bioidentidades

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Luciana Oliveira dos
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/4692
• topic: Panic; Panic Disorder or Syndrome; Body and mind; Distrust; Contemporary subjectivity; Risk society and identity; Pânico; Transtorno ou Síndrome do Pânico; Corpo e Mente; Desconfiança; Subjetividade contemporânea; Sociedade do Risco e Identidade; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA

Panic disorder is one of the worrying questions in terms of collective health. We believe that such disorder is a new form of mental illness, a category that has penetrated different social spaces, and its descriptions have been incorporated into the identitary framework of subjects. This study aims to question the cultural origins of the emergence and diffusion of this disorder in the field of subjectivity and identity construction. In post-modernity, on the one hand, we focus on the characteristics of what is called risk society (BECK, 1998), which generates feelings of unpredictability, unrootedness, and disaffiliation; on the other hand, together with the lack of prestige of the interiority ideal, individuals tend to resort to the register of the body and of biology as subjective anchor (COSTA, 2005). With the predominance of a scenario of uncertainty and permanent risk, an atmosphere is created in which predictability and trustworthiness are constantly threatened. That is, the value of trust in the register of ontology refers to existence of an environment that is sufficiently trustworthy and predictable so that the subjects experience a constancy of the surrounding environments of social and material action (WINNICOTT, 1963). We shall verify, within a risk scenario, how panic emerges and is diffused based on deviating origins. The panic disorder, which is supposedly rooted in the brain and determined by genetics, seems to be one of the entities to which people adhere and around which they aggregate. In this sense, we defend that the types of pathology in which the panic disorder is included may also function as belonging networks, forms of sociability that are organized around physical characteristics, both in the sphere of normality and of pathology, among which the anatomo-physiological body emerges as an identitary phenomenon, which some authors call bioidentity (ORTEGA, 2002). Humanizing the concept of panic disorder, therefore, means stating that such symptoms have already known other uses. If one understands the subject as a set of beliefs and desires, whose identity is under permanent reconstruction , these beliefs can be altered, revised, rethought, re-dimensioned (COSTA, 1994). When we leave the sphere of universality and essentiality, typical of reductionist classifications in the field of psychiatry, and embrace the perspective that there are different language games to refer to panic, we perceive that, instead of the panic disorder , there are panics , that is, the different grammars used to talk about that to which this psychiatric classification is reduced today are plural and diversified.