Unravelling subjectivity, embodied experience and (taking) psychotropic medication.


Journal

Social science & medicine (1982)
ISSN: 1873-5347
Titre abrégé: Soc Sci Med
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8303205

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
06 2019
Historique:
received: 17 12 2018
revised: 31 03 2019
accepted: 02 04 2019
pubmed: 13 4 2019
medline: 7 7 2020
entrez: 13 4 2019
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

This paper explores how distinctions between 'intended' and 'side' effects are troubled in personal narratives of taking psychotropic medications. Grounded in interviews with 29 participants diagnosed with mental illness in Victoria, Australia between February and December 2014, we consider how people interpret pharmaceutical compounds beyond their desired or intended effects, and how such effects shape and transform subjectivity and their relationship with their bodies. This paper contributes to recent discussions of mental illness and medication effects, informed by feminist science studies. It emphasises the co-constitution of social, affective and material relations in the context of 'taking' psychotropic medication. This paper discusses three key themes as important to the phenomenology of the nexus of illness and psychotropic medication: movement, ambivalence, and sociality. Our analysis demonstrates how psychotropic drugs are productive of subjectivity through their promises and potential, their unexpected harms and the institutions from which they are inseparable.

Identifiants

pubmed: 30978572
pii: S0277-9536(19)30198-4
doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.04.004
pmc: PMC6529876
pii:
doi:

Substances chimiques

Psychotropic Drugs 0

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

66-73

Subventions

Organisme : Wellcome Trust
ID : 209513/Z/17/Z
Pays : United Kingdom

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2019. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

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Auteurs

Jacinthe Flore (J)

Social and Global Studies Centre, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Electronic address: jacinthe.flore@rmit.edu.au.

Renata Kokanović (R)

Social and Global Studies Centre, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia; Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Felicity Callard (F)

Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom.

Alex Broom (A)

Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Arts and Social Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Cameron Duff (C)

School of Management, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.

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