ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2019
Unravelling subjectivity, embodied experience and (taking) psychotropic medication.
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- "I want to live life, not just be in it!": a qualitative study on existential aspects of choosing to reduce or stop psychotropic medication.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2025Article
- How Is Psychotropic Use for Challenging Behaviour in People With Intellectual Disability Understood by Stakeholders? A Concept Analysis Using Rodgers' Evolutionary Approach.Basic & clinical pharmacology & toxicology · 2025Article
- [Pharmaceutical subjectivity in times of crisis in Madrid: Between survival, chronicity, and "It Must Be Me"].Salud colectiva · 2025Article
- Pharmaceuticalization and Care Coordination in New York City Outpatient Mental Health.Medical anthropology · 2024Article
- Gender Influences on Physical Activity Awareness of Adolescents and Their Parents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Critical qualitative research on 'madness': knowledge making and activism among those designated 'mad'.Wellcome open research · 2021Article
- (Re)shaping the self: An ethnographic study of the embodied and spatial practices of women who use drugs.Health & place · 2020Article
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Abstract
This paper explores how distinctions between 'intended' and 'side' effects are troubled in personal narratives of taking psychotropic medications. Grounded in interviews with 29 participants diagnosed with mental illness in Victoria, Australia between February and December 2014, we consider how people interpret pharmaceutical compounds beyond their desired or intended effects, and how such effects shape and transform subjectivity and their relationship with their bodies. This paper contributes to recent discussions of mental illness and medication effects, informed by feminist science studies. It emphasises the co-constitution of social, affective and material relations in the context of 'taking' psychotropic medication. This paper discusses three key themes as important to the phenomenology of the nexus of illness and psychotropic medication: movement, ambivalence, and sociality. Our analysis demonstrates how psychotropic drugs are productive of subjectivity through their promises and potential, their unexpected harms and the institutions from which they are inseparable.
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