Sociologia do trauma: elementos sociogenéticos e psicogenéticos

• Autor(a) principal: Nascimento, Leonardo Fernandes
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• 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/1/15486
• topic: Posttraumatic stress disorder; Sociology of Diagnosis; Civilization process; Transtorno de estresse pós-traumático; Sociologia do diagnóstico; Processos de civilização; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA::SOCIOLOGIA DA SAUDE

This dissertation examines the social processes related to the reception of the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Brazil. Originating in the United States during the 1980, this diagnostic category first appeared in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-III, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association APA. It soon became one of the most studied and diagnosed syndrome of contemporary psychiatry. In order to map out the interrelated processes of diffusion and construction of PTSD I resorted to the analysis of a gamut sources: the daily operation of a research and treatment psychiatric institution, the verbal exchanges between psychiatrists and patients during medical appointments, psychiatric manuals and diagnostic tables and questionnaires, and mass media articles on PTSD. The approach adopted here intends to go beyond the apparent dilemma between a medicalized conception of PTSD as a natural phenomenon and an anthropological approach that sees PTSD as a culturally construed social experience. Finally, I also intend to show that the political and cultural underpinnings of the so called mental disorders cannot be correctly understood without taking into consideration the longue dureé dynamics of contemporary societies.