Editando vidas: focos do DSM na medicalização social

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Angela Batista da [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/134167; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/22-01-2016/000857643.pdf
• topic: Psychiatry; Psiquiatria; Saude mental; Educação; Semiologia (Medicina)

This study on the origins of the diagnostic categories will investigate whether the Psychiatric model, materialized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) - that nominates itself to clinical finalities for research and education - contributes or not with the continuity of the historical affirmative of interdictions to humane realities, now codified and legitimated to diagnostic categories. The interest for this object of investigation came out of the volume of diagnosed people who are also medicated and led into specialized mental health and educational services where I practice as a psychologist and in which I daily ask myself: are the times we are living in producing the mental disorders or these are something inherent in human being? That is the context in which I built an allegory using the cinematographic language of Eisenstein, along with a theoretical and methodological support of Foucault to think about the realities that we have been producing. Through the language of cinema, I approach the processes and meanings that create a scenery that resembles the dynamics of our everyday lives. Therefore I created three sequences in which I perform a critical analysis of the speeches of the professionals that work in the areas of psychology and education, as well as a genealogical of the DSM discourse, taking in consideration the history of psychiatry. This procedure is the pathway to find out whereas our current guide to deal with mental disorders is a method or an artifice of historical discontinuity reproduction. During the plot, my concern was to build a scenery overloaded with experiences I lived in my practice as a psychologist. The voice of Simão Bacamarte from the book The Alienist by Machado de Assis, comes into the scene to represent mental health professionals as myself. Hopefully this research will contribute to problematize the perceptions of the professionals From the areas of education and mental ...