Open AccessCare of the Self as a Practice of Resistance in Mental Health
Author(s) -
Magdalena Correa Blázquez,
Cayetano José Aranda Torres,
Baltasar Fernández Ramírez
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista de filosofía uis/revista filosofía uis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2145-8529
pISSN - 1692-2484
DOI - 10.18273/revfil.v21n1-2022007
Subject(s) - medicalization , biopower , resistance (ecology) , autonomy , mental health , health care , power (physics) , subject (documents) , self care , mental health care , psychology , sociology , nursing , medicine , psychiatry , political science , politics , ecology , physics , quantum mechanics , library science , computer science , law , biology
When it comes to mental health, the medicalization of our everyday lives can diminish the autonomy that we hold over our health and care. Considering medicalization as an artefact through which power is exerted via biopolitics it is, however, possible to establish practices of resistance against it. Taking as starting point the testimonies of nine participants considered to be mentally ill, we reflect the relationship between subject and health-care system established through the care of the self as a practice of resistance when it comes to mental health.