Abstract

AGUERO DE TRENQUALYE, María José  and  CORREA MOREIRA, Gonzalo. Governing experience: mental health and citizenship. Rev. Asoc. Esp. Neuropsiq. [online]. 2018, vol.38, n.134, pp.547-565.  Epub Feb 01, 2021. ISSN 2340-2733.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/s0211-57352018000200011.

In this article, mental health is analyzed as a governmental technology whose field of action focuses on the life experience of individuals, both worldwide and in all spheres of life. On the basis of Michel Foucault's concept of technologies of the self, it is proposed to think about a change in the forms of production of oneself as a result of the presence of mental health as a vital organizer. Through the analysis of the interactions in a consultation room of a primary care center in the province of Barcelona, three self-governance technologies that take experience as an object are described. It is concluded that these technologies are not aimed at the production of one´s self, but at the production of ourselves, which is presented as a normative modality that defines political and biological belonging to an ideal of species.

Keywords : health; mental health; primary health care; experience; citizenship.

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