Abstract

CASTRO, XIMENA. SUBJECTLESS MENTAL HEALTH. THE EXTRACTION OF SUBJECTIVITY IN CURRENT MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICES. CS [online]. 2013, n.11, pp.73-114. ISSN 2011-0324.  https://doi.org/10.18046/recs.i11.1567.

This article presents a critical reflection about certain discourses and practices characteristic of prevention and care in the mental health field. Based on a Lacanian perspective, this exercise will highlight the paradoxes of the 'management' of health care, wherein the search for greater effectiveness and efficiency ultimately turns health care into one more consumer object. It will additionally shed light on the effects of the ideology of evaluation, with its intention to measure, classify and formalize every intervention, as well as on the problems arising from a proposal for mental health as imperative, supported by 'universal' behavioral training techniques. This reflection will culminate in a call for a revindication of subjectivity.

Keywords : Subjectivity; psychoanalysis; mental health; health psychology.

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