2009
DOI: 10.1177/1363459308101809
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Negotiating the neurochemical self: anti-depressant consumption in women's recovery from depression

Abstract: Anti-depressant treatment can be viewed as an exercise of biopower that is articulated through policies and practices aimed at the reduction of depression, population healthcare costs and effects on labour force productivity. Drawing upon a feminist governmentality perspective, this article examines the discourses that shaped women's experiences of anti-depressant medication in an Australian qualitative study on recovery from depression. The majority of women had been prescribed anti-depressants to treat a che… Show more

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“…However, these notions of weakness and their constitutive effects are embedded in, and constituted by, much broader hegemonic articulations of normality in neo-liberal societies that, taken together, symbolically set the premises for what involvement can be considered to encompass. Moreover, similar studies of discourses of websites and policies have shed light on, how the understanding of mental illness as a matter of weakness is embedded in a dominant discourse about cost-effectiveness, responsibilization and self-reliance in psychiatric systems across contemporary, neo-liberal, Western societies (Carney, 2008;Fullagar, 2009;Ramon, 2008;Teghtsoonian, 2009). However, such study has to our knowledge not been conducted in a Scandinavian context.…”
Section: The Construction Of Mental Illness As a Matter Of Weaknessmentioning
confidence: 77%
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“…However, these notions of weakness and their constitutive effects are embedded in, and constituted by, much broader hegemonic articulations of normality in neo-liberal societies that, taken together, symbolically set the premises for what involvement can be considered to encompass. Moreover, similar studies of discourses of websites and policies have shed light on, how the understanding of mental illness as a matter of weakness is embedded in a dominant discourse about cost-effectiveness, responsibilization and self-reliance in psychiatric systems across contemporary, neo-liberal, Western societies (Carney, 2008;Fullagar, 2009;Ramon, 2008;Teghtsoonian, 2009). However, such study has to our knowledge not been conducted in a Scandinavian context.…”
Section: The Construction Of Mental Illness As a Matter Of Weaknessmentioning
confidence: 77%
“…To a large extent, the rationale about mental illness as a matter of weakness rests on the consent with an ideological notion of effectiveness that constitutes how professionals, users and relatives consider and practice treatment and involvement in contemporary Danish psychiatry. Our abidance to the hegemony of the presented discourse is concerned with weakness signaling and effectuating the opposite of a notion of subjectivity deeply rooted in the moral and ideology of neo-liberalist virtues and work ethics of individualism in Western industrialized countries (Fullagar, 2009;Teghtsoonian, 2009). These impinge on the individual's responsibility for, and capacity to be actively engaged with managing one's freedom and self-reliance and being a cost-effective citizen (Fullagar, 2009;Barry, 1996).…”
Section: A Hegemonic Discourse Of Normality Mental Illness and Involmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…There is a limited amount of research which has explored women's use of antidepressants and the meanings associated with this which suggests that women's relationship with antidepressants is highly ambivalent (Fullagar, 2009;Lafrance, 2007). Antidepressants appear to bring relief, comfort, and legitimation of distress but they also threaten women's sense of agency, cause unwanted side effects, and distract attention from the gendered environment which helps produce depression (Fullagar, 2009;Fullagar & O'Brien, 2012;Lafrance, 2007). Little is known, however, about how men experience antidepressant use.…”
Section: Gender and Mental Health Problemsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The research has pointed to antidepressants producing benefits for users, allowing them to function in their everyday lives (Fullagar, 2009). However, the chemical effects of antidepressants are also known to cause unpleasant side effects (Read, Cartwright & Gibson, 2014a;Pestello & Davis-Berman, 2008;Price, Cole, & Goodwin, 2009).…”
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