Psychotropic drugs: An encapsulated solution?

Through a brief sociological analysis of Western modes of subjectivity, we can see that health care has always been linked to the modes of subjectivity that reflect the cultural setting, social policy and different times. Regarding the strategies used in this regard, we find that the consumption of substances capable of altering states of consciousness and mood until the advent of modern psychopharmacology was largely limited to the power of sedation. With the discovery of chemical agents capable of assisting in the treatment of schizophrenia and the analysis of dreams in the 50s of last century, the administration of therapeutic drugs with the class of psychiatric drugs - antipsychotics, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, anxiolytics, hypnotics and centrally acting analgesics, another possible way to deal with symptoms psychoaffective free of biological markers. In a context in which we saw presenteeism rather than prioritizing of existence as an art for life, in so far as contemporary demands daily work, shop and stay within a desired aesthetic standard can not be achieved, psychotropic drugs is disguised solution legitimized by science for the restoration of human potential to interact and fit body, emotionally and cognitively to their environment. The widespread consumption of psychotropic drugs has been converted into an object of interest, speculation and analysis disciplines such as psychiatry, psychology, anthropology and economics. Nevertheless, given its nature as a medical device, the vast majority of available studies does not perform many questions about the elements of cultural, social and political mobilized by contemporary subjects in the decision to adhere to therapy with this type of medicine, and this is what we have investigated in the last year and propose to discuss.