Abstract

KAMERS, Michele. The madness fabrication in childhood: psychiatrization of discourse and children medicalization. Estilos clin. [online]. 2013, vol.18, n.1, pp. 153-165. ISSN 1415-7128.

Based on her clinical experience in several fields, the author proposes to reflect about psychiatrization of discourse and children medicalization. She questions how the psychiatric knowledge has been responding to social demands; the current response is merely a diagnosis of behavioral deviations and an attempt of standardization by medication. This article presents children psychiatry and medical clinic with children history, discussing how the psychiatric medical discourse, through its disciplinary mechanisms, has been summoned to respond to the malaise that childhood introduces in the social project today.

Keywords : psychiatrization of discourse; medicalization; childhood.

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