Abstract

RESENDE, Marina Silveira de; PONTES, Samira  and  CALAZANS, Roberto. The DSM-5 and its implications in the process of medicalization of existence. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2015, vol.21, n.3, pp. 534-546. ISSN 1677-1168.  http://dx.doi.org/DOI-10.5752/P.1678-9523.2015v21n3p534.

The release of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the fruit of a long revision process of the DSMIV- TR will result in changes in the structure of its own manual, which will change from a categorical diagnostic model to a longitudinal model. Such changes will confer a predictive characteristic to diagnosis. Our objective is to discuss the implications of some new diagnostic categories proposed by the DSM-5, concerning, especially, the strengthening of the movement that medicalizes its own existence. We point to, as one of the main triggers of this medicalization, the fact that the DSMs are no longer exclusively used clinically. To that end, we present the raise in the number of psychiatric drug sales in Brazil, as an indicator of this movement of medicalization of the existence

Keywords : Clinic; Medicalization; DSM-5; Diagnosys.

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