THE FEMINIZATION OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OR THE PSYCHOPATHOLOGIZATION OF THE FEMININE? DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS OF VULNERABLE BODIES

Miguel Roselló Peñaloza; Teresa Cabruja Ubach; Pablo Salvador Gómez Fuentealba

doi:10.5565/rev/athenea.2249

THE FEMINIZATION OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OR THE PSYCHOPATHOLOGIZATION OF THE FEMININE? DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS OF VULNERABLE BODIES

Miguel Roselló Peñaloza, Teresa Cabruja Ubach, Pablo Salvador Gómez Fuentealba

University of Girona

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Abstract

In this article, we review the role of the psychological disciplines in pathologizing and hyper-embodying the intersubjective functioning of women and of people with non-normative sex-gender ascriptions. To this purpose, we explore how some diagnostic categories that are more prevalent in women are related to the socio-scientific construction of women as psychologically vulnerable; the explanatory sufficiency attributed to biology in understanding and justifying genderbased inequalities and subordinations; the effects of individualization, universalization and essentialization of relational distress, as well as the disciplinary penalties exacted on non-masculine and non-heterosexual bodies and life forms, in general. We base the above on a discursive analysis of various fragments obtained from interviews with mental health professionals, through which we make visible how gender-based hierarchies of subjective functioning are constructed.

Translated title of the contribution	¿FEMINIZACIÓN DE LA PSICOPATOLOGÍA O PSICOPATOLOGIZACIÓN DE LO FEMENINO? CONSTRUCCIONES DISCURSIVAS DE CUERPOS VULNERABLES
Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-19
Number of pages	19
Journal	Athenea Digital
Volume	19
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/athenea.2249
State	Published - 2019
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Gender
Heteronormativity
Hyper-Embodiment
Psychopathologization

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