Governamentalidade, ‘Sociedade Liberal Avançada’ e Saúde: diálogos com Nikolas Rose (Parte 1)

Abstract

The transcript was reviewed by Nikolas Rose before being translated by the interviewer.

Our psychiatric future and the (bio)politics of Mental Health: dialogues with Nikolas Rose

“…In this interview, which follows a set of other reflections that dialogue with Rose's work [2][3][4] , we seek to discuss with the author's insights and problematizations around issues such as: a) psychiatry as a (bio)politics; b) the 'epidemics' of mental disorders'; c) the role and consequences of psychiatric diagnostic practice in defining what is defined as mental disorder or illness; d) the use and abuse of psychiatric drugs in the contemporary; e) strengths and weaknesses of discursive psychiatric practices in 'developed' countries; f) limits and possibilities of users' participation in the discourse, policies and practices of care in Mental Health.…”

Readings of state and health neoliberal government

“…We will take as a subsidy the "governmental" thinking of Michel Foucault -and contemporary authors who have been dialoguing with him (BARRY; OSBORNE; ROSE, 1996;BROWN, 2015;DEAN, 2010;GORDON, 1991;MILLER;ROSE, 2013;OKSALA, 2013;ROSE, 1999) , including those linked to the field of Brazilian Public Health (BENEVIDES; PRESTES, 2014;CAPONI, 2014;CARVALHO, 2015;MERHY et al, 2019) -to discuss the neoliberal government of health and the State. Above all, we are interested in questioning whether our aspirations for social rights have been obstructed not only by a neoliberal ideology present in the conformation of the State and Brazilian public policies, but also by a complex neoliberal reconfiguration of the forms of health and subjectivity government and our relationships with others and with ourselves.…”

Políticas da própria vida e o futuro das práticas médicas: diálogos com Nikolas Rose (Parte 3)

“…At the first interview 1 we explore aspects about State, Public Policy and Health and their relation with the concept of governmentality. On the second 2 on we discussed the role of psy's knowledge and practices in the government of conduct.…”