Necropolitics and Childhood Psychiatrization in Times of Pandemic

Authors

  • Sandra Caponi Federal University of Santa Catarina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.rp.e346020

Keywords:

pandemic, psychiatry, childhood, medicalization, iatrogenic effects

Abstract

Considering the terrible management of the pandemic in Brazil, the article questions the thesis according to which after the covid-19 infection we will have to live with a new outbreak: that of mental disorders, which will particularly affect childhood. I argue that, if the logic of psychiatry —today hegemonic— prevails, we run the serious risk that, once the crisis is over, we must have to handle a false spread of psychiatric diagnoses in childhood.
Considering the model of identification of mental disorders adopted by the dominant psychiatric discourse, it is possible to foresee a multiplication of ambiguous psychiatric diagnoses and an increase in children treated with psychotropic drugs that have iatrogenic effects that are detrimental to their development.
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Author Biography

Sandra Caponi, Federal University of Santa Catarina

Doctor of Philosophy at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Professor at the Department of Sociology and Political Science at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil.

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Published

2022-03-25

How to Cite

Caponi, S. (2022). Necropolitics and Childhood Psychiatrization in Times of Pandemic. Revista De Psicología Universidad De Antioquia, 13(2), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.rp.e346020

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