title: Psychiatry, bio-epistemes and the making of adolescence in southern Brazil.
abstract: Drawing on an ethnographic study in southern Brazil, this paper explores how therapists' attempts to "resist bioreductionist" pharmaceutical use both succeed and crumble. Using a comparative framing, I show that pharmaceuticalization can become an anesthetizing "lid" that interacts with young people's polarizing micro-politics and is an outgrowth of multi-generational medico-political family histories. This lid, however, is not air-tight and exceptionalities are born out of these very same histories. I argue that both pharmaceuticalization and exceptions to it emerge not through "resistance" to biopsychiatric logics but from the transformative possibilities that the patterned co-production of social, political, and psychiatric life affords.
authors.affiliation: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA, dominique.behague@vanderbilt.edu.
authors.forename: Dominique Pareja
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Béhague
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000296:Adolescent Psychiatry / Q000266:history; D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D001689:Biological Psychiatry; D001938:Brazil; D002648:Child; D002668:Child Rearing / Q000266:history; D005260:Female; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D055815:Young Adult