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| URV's Author/s: | Martinez Hernaez, Angel |
| Author, as appears in the article.: | Martinez-Hernaez, Angel |
| Author's mail: | angel.martinez@urv.cat |
| Author identifier: | 0000-0002-5122-7075 |
| Journal publication year: | 2020 |
| Publication Type: | Journal Publications |
| ISSN: | 0165005X |
| APA: | Martinez-Hernaez, Angel (2020). Neuronarratives of Affliction: Antidepressants, Neuropolitics and the Entrepreneur of Oneself. Culture Medicine And Psychiatry, 44(2), 230-248. DOI: 10.1007/s11013-019-09651-8 |
| Paper original source: | Culture Medicine And Psychiatry. 44 (2): 230-248 |
| Abstract: | The dramatic increase in the consumption of antidepressants is one indicator, among others, of the contemporary cerebralization of human affliction. This process has been led by expert systems, creating new biosocialities or neurosocialities, and new models of self as well: the neural self. While some research minimizes the neuro-colonization of the self and its impact on lay knowledge systems, here I argue that synergy between neuropolitics and figures characteristic of neoliberal governamentality such as the "entrepreneur of oneself" can give rise to an interiorized, cerebralized, centripetal, inwardly-oriented self. This paper, based on long-term fieldwork among consumers of antidepressants in Catalonia, analyses the emergence of neuronarratives of affliction (NoAs). NoAs privilege neurochemical dysfunction as the source of distress, shortcircuiting an awareness of the social sources of suffering while at the same time obscuring the fact of this concealment. NoAs transform the self into structure and reduce the social world to event. |
| Article's DOI: | 10.1007/s11013-019-09651-8 |
| Department: | Antropologia, Filosofia i Treball Social |
| Licence document URL: | https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/ |
| Thematic Areas: | Social sciences, interdisciplinary Social sciences, biomedical Saúde coletiva Psychiatry and mental health Psychiatry Medicine (miscellaneous) Medicina ii Medicina i Health (social science) Enfermagem Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas Arts and humanities (miscellaneous) Antropología Anthropology |
| Keywords: | Psychopolitics Psychiatry Politics Neuropolitics Neuronarratives Humans Entrepreneur of oneself Commerce Antidepressive agents Antidepressants |
| Entity: | Universitat Rovira i Virgili |
| Record's date: | 2025-01-28 |
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