Medicamentalização, Discursos Transhumanos e suas Demandas no Capitalismo: Uma Revisão de Literatura

Roberto Henrique Amorim de Medeiros; Vladimir Frediani Jardim

doi:10.5020/23590777.rs.v25i3.e14927

Authors

Roberto Henrique Amorim de Medeiros Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8224-9755
Vladimir Frediani Jardim Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil https://orcid.org/0009-0008-7572-3015

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5020/23590777.rs.v25i3.e14927

Keywords:

medicamentation, transhumanism, capitalist discourse

Abstract

This article seeks to examine the process of medicamentalization in mental health through an exploratory and descriptive research, aiming to address the relationship between medicamentalization and transhumanism, supposedly produced in contemporary times by capitalist discourse. It was constructed through a narrative literature review on the transhuman paradigm, contemporary capitalist ideals, and psychopharmacology. The growing role of psychopharmacology as a primary treatment in mental health suggests a connection with the transhumanist discourse within the demands of capitalist society. This approach allowed for analysis of psychopharmaceuticals as technological tools to achieve the machinic transhuman ideal. The critical analytical work with the articles included by the method indicated the concept of wish-fulfilling medicine as exemplary. Therefore, we present and discuss this practice that sews together the notion of the transhuman individual with clinical practices that offer satisfaction for the "improvement" desires of bodies according to a supposed idealized cultural wish.

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Author Biographies

Roberto Henrique Amorim de Medeiros, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Graduated in Psychology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS (1996), Master in Clinical Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (2000), and PhD in Education from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2011). Has experience in the clinical psychoanalytic field (care and supervision), in care and management work within Primary Health Care (Community Health Service of the Grupo Hospitalar Conceição, 2003-2013), and as a healthcare professional trainer (Integrated Health Residency/GHC, Porto Alegre - Rio Grande do Sul, 2004-2013).

Vladimir Frediani Jardim, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Graduated in Psychology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), since 2016/1. Currently works as a therapist and intern with an emphasis on Clinical Processes at the Psychological Care Clinic of UFRGS, and is an undergraduate research fellow in the project "The Passion for the Automaton, Posthumanism and Psychoanalysis: readings on clinic and social bond".

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