Effections, Discourses and Mad Studies: Rethinking the Subject of Mental Health

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29092/uacm.v22i57.1168

Keywords:

Affections, discourse, mental health, mad studies, collective identities

Abstract

This essay elaborates on the organization built by the activist efforts of mad studies and pride as academic-political resistance to the impositions of power-knowledge imposed by psy dispositive. It is argued that this dispositive is an extension of the biomedical and neoliberal model that regulates identities and behaviors, with stigmatizing and excluding effects in the constitution of the “sane” subject. The essay also presents a dissertation on the relationship between discourse and affect, as a couple that can help find escape routes to the imposed cannons of the psy dispositive, the biomedical model of mental health and the subjectivation mechanisms it allows

 

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Author Biography

  • Ignacio Lozano Verduzco, National Pedagogic University, National Pedagogic University

    Profesor Titular “C” en la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, México. Es miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, nivel I. Tiene un doctorado en psicología social por la UNAM. Sus líneas temáticas de interés son los estudios críticos de hombres y masculinidades, juventudes LGBTQ+ y procesos formales e informales de la educación sexual, sobre las cuáles ha escrito, investigado y publicado.

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Published

2025-04-30

How to Cite

Effections, Discourses and Mad Studies: Rethinking the Subject of Mental Health. (2025). Andamios, Revista De Investigación Social, 22(57), 463-489. https://doi.org/10.29092/uacm.v22i57.1168