Drawing on an ethnographic study in southern Brazil, this paper explores how therapists’ attempts to “resist bioreductionist” pharmaceutical use both succeed and crumble. Using a comparative framing, I show that pharmaceuticalization can become an anesthetizing “lid” that interacts with young people’s polarizing micro-politics and is an outgrowth of multi-generational medico-political family histories. This lid, however, is not air-tight and exceptionalities are born out of these very same histories. I argue that both pharmaceuticalization and exceptions to it emerge not through “resistance” to biopsychiatric logics but from the transformative possibilities that the patterned co-production of social, political, and psychiatric life affords.
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Béhague, D. P. (2016). Psiquiatria, bioepistemes e a formação da adolescência no sul do Brasil. Historia, Ciencias, Saude - Manguinhos, 23(1), 131–153. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-59702016000100009
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