Family and psychiatry under a switch look: To an anthropology of the clinic with adolescents

Abstract

The relationship between psychiatry and family depends on the social context in which they enrol. This is particularly because the family represents a social data, in essence, that psychiatry confronts continuously in its various activities and reflections. In this article, these elements will be specified in an approach targeting the context for the emergence of these relations and contemporary implications. It comes to interrogate issues supporting the relationship between family and psychiatry, including taking the definitions relating to them and their distribution field. This implementation issues raised will allow us to register then how a clinical work, specifically with youth, must take account of these elements for will develop and is next to think of contemporary social logics. This dual approach, social and clinical, which should not be confused, but influencing anyway, can give an anthropology of clinical work that measure the place of psychiatry in society and modulate with the current social expectations, approach and clinical work. © 2011.