Abstract

CORZO PEREZ, Paula Ariadna. Psychiatry and Biopolitics in context of war: Understanding conflict to build the post-conflict. rev.colomb.psiquiatr. [online]. 2016, vol.45, n.4, pp.262-267. ISSN 0034-7450.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcp.2016.02.002.

The purpose of this document is to present a review on biopolitics and psychiatry in the context of war, considering that this is where the greatest number of altered and deviant behaviours is generated. Along this line, as it is not about the psychopathology, but of its behaviour, of the approaches of Michel Foucault as regards the relationships of power, as such that it allows introducing the reader to a new perspective of thinking and understanding of the elements that have given rise to the maintenance of violent behaviour patterns and of the war itself. It tries to show the reader a different approach in which it is proposed that psychiatry can be actively involved in mitigation of all those schemes that ingrained the violence that have contributed to the perpetuation of war in modern society. Considering traditional approaches created to define human behaviour and mental illness only represented by a Disease code (ICD/DSM) are not sufficient to understand them. It induces the reader to reflect using practical examples that allows them to visualize, through a hypothetical scenario, elements of biopolitics that influence the behaviour, and the role of power relationships in the dynamics of population, particularly those who have grown up in circumstances of vulnerability and violence, and showing how psychiatry faces the points raised by biopolitics. That is why understanding this topic is necessary to help change behaviour and those patterns that help maintain behaviours that lead to violence and war itself. It is about re-thinking human behaviour as a result of a cultural and bio-political context that determines in the individual a way of acting, that regardless of the point in history or the place where you are, it is established as their usually form of behaviour in the struggle to survival.

Keywords : Biopolitics; Psychiatry; Culture and war.

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