Medicalization of suffering in therapeutic culture: vulnerability and unachievable normality
This article bases on the recent increase in the number of people receiving a psychiatric diagnosis and tries to understand how the emergence of a therapeutic culture, in the transition from modernity to contemporaneity, contributed to this increase. Our hypothesis is that the changes in culture ten...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde (Icict) da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz)
2017-04-01
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| Series: | RECIIS |
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| Online Access: | https://www.reciis.icict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/article/view/1235 |