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l'Information Psychiatrique. Volume 81, Number 4, 345-9, Avril 2005, Santé mentale en population générale

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Author(s) : Philippe Pignarre

Summary : What do psychotropic drugs do to us?Psychotropic drugs have not spawned the promised biological revolution. They have, though, redefined psychiatric psychology and biology. In order to prescribe them properly, psychiatrists are no longer required to be interested in the content of patients’ complaints, but simply in the form. One can thus understand how depression has become an “ecological recess”. The paper does not seek to question the usefulness of the different psychotropic drugs, but rather the theory that, in the name of biological psychiatry, accompanies them.

Keywords : depression, ecology, biological psychiatry, psychology, culture