The bias of gender in discourse and psychiatric interventions
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2023v31n193055Keywords:
género; psiquiatría; feminismo; diagnósticos; psicofármacosAbstract
The article addresses the existing gender bias in the field of psychiatry. To explore this topic, we have divided our presentation into three parts. Initially we explore the gender bias in the history of psychiatry, particularly in the birth of modern psychiatry. In a second moment, we analyze the feminist criticisms of current psychiatry, regarding the persistence of the gender bias since the 1970s, when the first critical studies appeared, up to the present. Finally, in the third part of this writing, we present a first-person narrative, the result of an interview with a user of a CAPS in Florianópolis.
Downloads
References
BACIGALUPE, Amaia; MARTÍN, Unai. “Gender inequalities in depression/anxiety and the consumption of psychotropic drugs: Are we medicalising women’s mental health?”. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health [En línea]. 2020, v. 49, Issue 3. Disponible en https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1403494820944736. Consultado el 16/02/2023.
BIANCHI, Eugenia. “¿De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de medicalización? Sobre adjetivaciones, reduccionismos y falacias del concepto en ciencias sociales”. Relmecs. [En línea]. 2019, v. 9, n. 1. Disponible en http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/78051. Consultado el 16/02/2023.
BOMBARDA, Miguel. Lições sobre a Epilepsia. Lisboa: Livraria de Antonio Pereira, 1896.
BUSFIELD, Joan. “The archaeology of psychiatric disorder. Gender and the disorders of thought, emotion and behaviour”. In: BENDELOW, Gillian; CARPENTER, Mick; VAUTIER, Caroline; WILLIAMS, Simon (Eds.), Gender, Health and Healing: The Public/Private Divide. Londres: Routledge, 2002. p. 144- 162.
CAPLAN, Paula; COSGROVE, Lisa. Bias In Psychiatric Diagnosis. Maryland: Jason Aronson Book, 2004.
CAPLAN, Paula; POLAND, Jeffrey. “The Deep Structure of Bias In Psychiatric Diagnosis”. In: CAPLAN, Paula; COSGROVE, Lisa (Orgs.). Bias In Psychiatric Diagnosis. Maryland: Jason Aronson Book, 2004. p. 9-23.
CAPONI, Sandra. “Scientia Sexualis. El lugar de la mujer en la historia de la psiquiatría”. In:
MIRANDA Marisa (Comp.) Las locas. Miradas interdisciplinarias sobre género y salud mental. La Plata: Edulp, 2019. p. 19-48.
CHESLER, Phyllis. Women and Madness. Nueva York: Avon, 1983.
CHESLER, Phyllis. “Prefacio a la edición de 2005”. In: CHESLER, Phyllis. Women and Madness.
Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2018.
DAVIDSON, Larry; RAKFELDT, Jaak; STRAUSS, John. Las raíces del movimiento de recuperación en psiquiatría. Lecciones aprendidas. Madrid: Fundación para la Investigación y el Tratamiento de la Esquizofrenia y otras Psicosis, 2014.
FOUCAULT, Michel. Le pouvoir psiquiatrique. Paris: Gallimard, 2003.
FOUCAULT, Michel. Historia de la sexualidad. La voluntad de Saber. México D.F.: Siglo XXI, 1978.
FOUCAULT, Michel. Les anormaux. París: Gallimard. 1999.
IBSEN, Henrik. Casa de muñecas. Buenos Aires: Losada, 2009.
KRAFFT-EBING, Richard von. Psychopathia Sexualis. Philadelphia and London: The Davis Company and Rebman, 1894.
KUEHNER, Christine. “Why is depression more common among women than among men?”. Lancet Psychiatry [En línea]. 2017, v. 4, n. 2, p. 146-158. Disponible en https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27856392/. Consultado el 12/02/2023.
GOUDSMIT, Ellen. “All in Her Mind! Stereotypic Views and the Psychologisation of Women’s Illness”. In: WILKINSON, Sue; KITZINGER, Celia (Eds.). Women and Health: Feminist Perspectives. Londres: Taylor & Francis, 1994. pp. 7-12.
HURTADO, Inmaculada. Territorio Babia. Análisis de las articulaciones de género en el caso del
TDAH. In: XIV CONGRESO DE ANTROPOLOGÍA. ANTROPOLOGÍAS EN TRANSFORMACIÓN: SENTIDOS, COMPROMISOS Y UTOPÍAS, 2017, Valencia.
MAGNAN, Valentin; LEGRAIN, Paul Maurice. Les dégénérés. Paris: Rueff et G, 1895.
MAZON, Marcia. “Por que a indústria farmacêutica é diferente das outras? Saúde mental, ciência e psicotrópicos em questão”. In: CAPONI, Sandra; BROZOZOESKI, Fabíola S; LAJONQUÉRE, Leandro (Eds.). Saberes espertos e medicalização no domínio da infância. São Paulo: LiberArs, 2021. p. 33-52.
MIRANDA, Marisa. ¡Madre y patria! Eugenesia, procreación y poder en una Argentina
heteronormada. Buenos Aires: Teseo, 2019.
MOEBIUS, Paul Julius. La inferioridad mental de la mujer. Barcelona: Bruguera, 1982.
MOREL, Benedict. Traité des dégénérescence Physique, Intellectueles et Morales de l’Espèce
Humaine. Paris: Baillére, 1857.
MOURA, Maria Lacerda de. A mulher é uma degenerada. São Paulo: Tenda de Livros, 2018.
ONGARO BASAGLIA, Franca. “Prólogo”. In: ONGARO BASAGLIA, Franca. La inferioridad mental de la mujer. Barcelona: Bruguera, 1982. p. 1-22.
PRIOR, Pauline. “The Dark Side of Goodness: women, social norms and mental health”. Journal of Gender Studies [En línea]. 1996, v.5, n.1, p. 27-37. Disponible en https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09589236.1996.9960627. Consultado el 13/02/2023.
RIMKE, Heidi. “Introduction – Mental and Emotional Distress as a Social Justice Issue: Beyond
Psychocentrism”. Social Justice Issues, [En línea]. 2016 v.10, n.1, p. 4-17. Disponible en https://
journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SSJ/article/view/1407. Consultado el 10/02/2023.
RIMKE, Heidi; BROCK, Deborah. “The Culture of Therapy: Psychocentrism in Everyday Life”. In:
BROCK, Deborah; RABY, Rebecca; THOMAS, Mark P. (Eds.). Power and Everyday Practices. Toronto: Nelson Education, 2012, p. 182-202.
SHOWALTER, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830- 1980.
London: Virago, 2001.
USSHER, Jane. Women’s Madness: Misogyny or Mental Illness? Hemel Hempstead: Harvester
Wheatsheaf, 1991.
USSHER, Jane. The Madness of Women: Myth and Experience. Nueva York: Routledge, 2011.
Additional Files
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2023 Revista Estudos Feministas
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Revista Estudos Feministas is under the Creative Commons International 4.0 Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), that allows sharing the work with recognition of authorship and initial publication in this journal.
The license allows:
Sharing (copying and redistributing the material in any support or format) and/or adapting (remixing, transforming, and creating from the material) for any purpose, even if commercial.
The licensor cannot revoke these rights provided the terms of the license are respected. The terms are the following:
Attribution – you should give the appropriate credit, provide a link to the license and indicate if changes were made. This can be done in several ways without suggesting that the licensor has approved of the use.
Without additional restrictions – You cannot apply legal terms or technological measures that prevent others from doing something allowed by the license.
