The article examines the relationship between psychological distress, individualism and the use of psychotropics medications. Its argument is developed through an exploration of the following hypotheses: (a) psychological distress has become reconfigured and, as a result, the social status of psychological distress has changed; (b) these reconfigurations are sign of alterations in the process of subjectivization; (c) elective affinities exist between these changes and contemporary individualism; (d) psychological distress manifests primarily as "psychic pain" and (e) the therapy for psychological distress has became "analgesia",' stimulating extensive use of psychotropic treatments.
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Perrusi, A. (2015). Sofrimento psíquico, individualismo e uso de psicotrópicos: Saúde mental e individualidade contemporânea. Tempo Social, 27(1), 139–159. https://doi.org/10.1590/0103-20702015017
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