A psicofarmacologização da infância e o modelo de ação da droga centrado na doença

The prescription and wide acceptance of the use of classic and atypical antipsychotics in childhood and adolescence was legitimated by relying on the supposed therapeutic and curative functions of these drugs. Taking as a starting point the distinction of two explanatory models of action of psychoactive drugs, one centered on the disease and the other centered on the drug, I analyze how the pharmaceutical industry has contributed, with its marketing strategies, to the dissemination of a triumphalist narrative that naturalized the use of antipsychotics as a curefor psychiatric diseases. The two psychopharmaceuticals analyzed are chlorpromazine, a classic antipsychotic, and risperidone, an atypical, state-of-the-art antipsychotic.