Psychopathology and demedicalization of existence: Phenomenological possibilities for understanding health in contemporary times
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 p...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Perspectivas em Psicologia (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.seer.ufu.br:article/58341 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/perspectivasempsicologia/article/view/58341 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Psicopatologia Medicalização Fenomenologia Psychopatology Medicalization Phenomenology |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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