Psychopathology and demedicalization of existence: Phenomenological possibilities for understanding health in contemporary times

• Autor(a) principal: da Silva Chaves, Flávio
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Lima do Nascimento, Crisóstomo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Perspectivas em Psicologia (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/perspectivasempsicologia/article/view/58341
• topic: Psicopatologia; Medicalização; Fenomenologia; Psychopatology; Medicalization; Phenomenology

The article implements a critical look at the contemporary psychopathological phenomenon that associates psychological suffering to the medicalizing process that we will call here the medicalization of existence. With a historical-critical and phenomenological literature, we intend to clarify this phenomenon by pointing out the primacy of the organicist paradigm in contemporary psychopathology supported by Psychopathological Manuals aligned with a technification that stands out for the rapid result of existential madness through medicalization to the detriment of historical-existential processes. The literature review proposes to reflect, at first, on clinical iatrogenesis and political and economic statements dressed as scientificity as a critical epistemological axis for a biologizing classification of health. Then, using psychopathology as a parameter to insert the multiple perspectives on the phenomenon, demonstrating the multidimensional nature of illness. In this sense, phenomenological and historical-critical thinkers will guide us to understand the imperative of technocracy in the primordial ways of understanding the health-disease binomial and we will end by emphasizing the human existential character in everyday senses while being fundamentally suffering for professionals that deal with human suffering.