ABSTRACT
This paper addresses four main questions regarding suicide: Death, as a substitute to Sex as a Tabu, the lack of a theory capable of rendering a comprehensive concept, the dichotomy severing epidemiology from clinics; and lastly the notion of the good treatment as the best preventive approach to the individual patient.
Subject(s)
Humans , Taboo , Suicide Prevention , Terminology as TopicABSTRACT
The main focus of this paper is to analyze the role of the word pronounced by members of the health staff as it is constitutive of identity in the patient recepting the word. How is identity constructed? How does the word spoken by a significant Other impinge on this process? In particular, what about the influence of words denoting medical diagnoses? Regarding such queries we also look, on a preliminary basis, at each of the two main currents in Western medicine (biomedicine and medical anthropology), to find out if and how it addresses the relation between the word as an element of identity and the same word as a therapeutic tool.
Subject(s)
Communication , Social Identification , Psychiatry/methods , Psychiatry/standards , Mental Disorders/diagnosis , HumansABSTRACT
El titulo "psicofarmacología de género", que encabeza una cantidad creciente de artículos de la especialidad, carece, en conjunto, de la más mínima coherencia. Los autores de este ensayo presentan una discusión acerca de este fenómeno, que en el mejor de los casos puede ser calificado como un malentendido.
The heading "Gender Psychopharmacology", presiding growing quantities of papers on the speciality, lacks coherence, all together. The authors of the present essay discuss this phenomenon, that can be characterized as a misunderstanding, at best.