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BEZERRA, Iasmin Sharmayne Gomes; NOBRE, Maria Teresa  e  AMORIM, Ana Karenina de Melo Arraes. Women, medicalization, and groups: experience with autonomous medication management in the Northeast. Rev. Subj. [online]. 2024, vol.24, n.1, e13920.  Epub 09-Mar-2026. ISSN 2359-0769.  https://doi.org/10.5020/23590777.rs.v24i1.e13920.

Psychiatric discourse has produced the excessive use of psychotropic drugs, being women the largest consumers in primary health care. When we consider the Brazilian Northeastern and countryside scenery and the gender, social, and culturally constituted issues within it, this problem challenges mental health care. Thus, this intervention research aimed to map the participation of medicalized women in psychological distress in an Autonomous Medication Management Group (GAM) in the context mentioned above. The study research was carried out over 6 months, in 24 meetings, and data was analyzed, based on narrative fragments from cartographic diaries and audio records, into three themes: 1. Production of psychological suffering in the bodies of medicalized countryside women and the silencing of discomforts caused by the condition of poor domestic woman-mother; 2. Experiences of these women in affective and sexual work concerning their psychological suffering; and 3. GAM group in these women's lives in the production of collectivity and reflections based on the anti-asylum and health movements. We conclude that gender relations are the components of medicalization in these women's lives, and the group constitutes a co-managing space of resistance, where women recognize themselves as autonomous subjects in relations of power and knowledge in which they are involved.

Palavras-chave : women; medicalization; mental health; primary care; backlands.

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