Efeitos da medicalização na travessia adolescente

Abstract

In this article, we aim to think about the effects of the current medical-scientific discourse’s hegemony on the process of adolescence, from the presentation and discussion about the case of a 17 year old boy that we have followed during the years of 2013 and 2014 through a project of research-intervention, developed in outpatient child and adolescent mental health of the city of Rio de Janeiro. As we shall see, from 8 years old, this young man came to be distributed by the school to various mental health services with learning difficulties and agitation complaints in the school environment. Inserted in this way in the field of specialties (psychiatry, psychology, neurology), he was soon diagnosed with ADHD (Attention Deficit Disorder Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and mild mental retardation. From psychoanalysis, we intend to examine how the treatment of the malaise presented by the boy by a medicalizing diagnostic categorization strengthens its difficulty in engaging in the subjectivation work of adolescence, which would allow him to assume a desiring position and to build his own discourse about himself.