Depressão e medicalização: uma questão contemporânea.

Abstract

Depression occupies the place of 'malaise' in the contemporary world, arousing interest in various places of knowledge regarding its denomination, treatment and how depressive subjects perceive it. Like Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis. It is also noticed that the current context interferes in the forms of care in the world of the clinic and in the way the subjects put themselves in the world. Thus, it is considered important to take the issue of suffering in contemporary times, highlighted mainly by the Depression, to the academic space, questioning: what place does medicalization occupy today in the discourse on psychic suffering?