Abstract
The objective of this chapter is to initiate a discussion in the field of the human rights of people with psychosocial disabilities, challenging the prevailing hegemonic medical model. I propose to examine the arguments used to legitimize and spread the use of antipsychotics, with serious side effects and questionable benefits, for children who suffer from some type of psychosocial disability. I argue that the effective guarantee of “respect for the developing capacities of children with disabilities” is called into question when the use of antipsychotics in childhood is trivialized. In this chapter, I particularly discuss the prescription of atypical antipsychotics for undisciplined and disobedient children.
This book chapter was accomplished within the framework of the Capes-Cofecub international agreement between the Federal University of Santa Catarina and the University of Paris 8/ Vincennes- Saint Denis. Capes-Cofecub Project: Capes process number. 88881.191755/2018–01/ Cofecub process number Sh 940/19.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Abrasme Notícia. 2015. Mais de mil meninos tiveram seus seios crescidos, causa provável a risperidona. ABRASME, February 02, 1–2.
ANVISA. 2018. Bula Amplictil. Anvisa.. http://www.saudedireta.com.br/catinc/drugs/bulas/amplictil.pdf. Accessed 10 April 2022.
APA. 2013. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. 5th ed (DSM-5). Arlington: American Psychiatric Association.
Barbosa-Fohrmann, Ana Paula, and Inmaculada Vivas-Tesón, eds. 2020. Cruzando Fronteiras: Perspectivas transnacionais e interdisciplinares dos estudos de deficiência. Porto Alegre: Ed. FI.
Brasil. Lei n° 13.146, de 6 de julho de 2015 (Estatuto da Pessoa com Deficiência). 2015. http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2015-2018/2015/lei/l13146.htm. Accessed 30 March 2022.
Breggin, Peter. 1991. Toxic psychiatry. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
Couttolenc, Myriam. 2010. Discapacidad psicosocial: “invisible” em México. México: Defensor Revista de derechos humanos. https://www.corteidh.or.cr/tablas/r25716.pdf. Accessed 4 April 2022.
Deniker, Pierre. 1987. Psychopharmacologie. Ellipses: Les médicaments et drogues psychotropes. Paris.
Diniz, Débora. 2017. O que é deficiência. São Paulo: Ed. Brasiliense.
Fernandez, Maria Teresa. 2010. La discapacidad mental o psicosocial y la Convención sobre los derechos de las personas com discapacidad. México: Defensor Revista de derechos humanos. https://www.corteidh.or.cr/tablas/r25716.pdf. Accessed 1 April 2022.
Gøtzsche, Peter C. 2015. Deadly psychiatry and organised denial. People's Press.
Guillen, Cecilia. 2018. Personas con discapacidad psicosocial: invisibles, pero discriminadas. https://documenta.org.mx/blog-documenta/2018/08/08/personas-con-discapacidad-psicosocial-invisibles-pero-discriminadas/. Accessed 20 April 2022.
Janssen. 2003. Risperdal Products L.P: Janssen. https://www.janssen.com/us/our-products. Accessed 5 May 2022.
Kristof, Nicholas. 2015. When crime pays: J & J ‘s drug Risperdal. New York Times. September 17, 1–3.
Lane, Christopher. 2018. Antipsychotics tied to higher risk of death in children. Psychology Today. December 28. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/side-effects/201812/antipsychotics-tied-higher-risk-death-in-children#:~:text=The%20latest%20study%20demands%20a,guidelines%20need%20adjusting%2C%20and%20soon. Accessed 5 May 2022.
Menárguez, Ana. 2022. Auge de adolescentes ingressados em psiquiatria. El Pais, Saúde Mental. February. https://elpais.com/sociedad/2022-02-10/auge-de-adolescentes-ingresados-en-psiquiatria-mi-hija-empezo-a-eliminar-alimentos-y-entro-en-estado-de-hibernacion-era-como-una-sombra.html. Accessed 10 May 2022.
Moncrieff, Joanna. 2008. The myth of the chemical cure. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
———. 2013. Magic bullets for mental disorders: The emergence of the concept of na “antipsychotic” drug. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 22 (1): 30–46.
ONU-Brasil. Protocolo Facultativo-Convenção sobre os Direitos das Pessoas com deficiência. 2007. https://www2.senado.leg.br/bdsf/bitstream/handle/id/99423/Protocolo_facultativo_Convencao_direito_pessoas_deficiencia_2008.pdf?sequence=4. Accessed 30 April 2022.
Pignarre, Phyllipe. 2006. Les malheurs des psys: psychotropes et médicalisation du social. Paris: La Découverte.
Rodrigues, Alex. 2014. Ministério de Saúde estuda distribuir Risperidona a usuários de crack e cocaína. Agência Brasil: 1–5.
Rose, Nikolas. 2019. Our Psiquiatric future. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Polity Press.
Sassaki, Romeu Kazumi. 2011. Deficiência Psicossocial. A Nova Categoria de Deficiência. Jusbrasil.. https://oabrj.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/2748813/artigo-deficiencia-psicossocialromeu-%0Akazumi-sassaki. Accessed 25 May 2022.
United Nations. Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities. 2006. https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/convention-on-the-rights-of-persons-with-disabilities.html. Accessed 30 March 2022.
Vizotto, Luana Paula, and Daniele de Andrade Ferrazza. 2017. Childhood in the hotseat: On diagnostic labeling and the trivialized practice of psychotropic prescriptions. Estudos de Psicologia 22 (2): 214–224.
Whitaker, Robert. 2002. Mad in America: Bad medicine, and the enduring mistreatment of the mentally III. New York: Basic Books.
———. 2010. Anatomy of an epidemic: Magic bullets, psychiatric drugs, and the astonishing rise of mental illness in America. Crown: Random House.
———. 2022. Medicating preschoolers for ADHD: How “evidence-based” psychiatry has led to a tragic end. Mad in America, February 19. https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/02/medicating-preschoolers-for-adhd-leads-to-tragic-end/. Accessed 10 May 2022.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2023 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Caponi, S. (2023). The Rights of Children with Psychosocial Disabilities and the Prescription of Antipsychotics in Childhood. In: Barbosa-Fohrmann, A.P., Caponi, S. (eds) Latin American Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Bioethics and Disabilities. The International Library of Bioethics, vol 102. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22891-9_9
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22891-9_9
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-031-22890-2
Online ISBN: 978-3-031-22891-9
eBook Packages: Religion and PhilosophyPhilosophy and Religion (R0)