From the emergence of psychiatry to neoliberal logic: the commodification of contemporary suffering.

This study discusses the concepts of normality and pathologization in contemporaneity from a historical context of the emergence and growth of psychiatry associated with the development of neoliberalism. The psychiatric knowledge begins to grown allied to an economic management of the government, transforming the suffering in commodity. Therefore, the psychiatric reform face challenges against the asylum logic, still present in society, which seeks to catalog diseases and diagnose natural issues of everyday life. Thus, we seek to understand how neoliberal logic is associated with psychiatric knowledge and consequently influences the increase in diagnoses of mental disorders in contemporary times. To achieve this goal, we analyzed journalistic articles and scientific research that address the increase in diagnoses of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Attention Deficit with Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). It was concluded that it is still necessary to question the influences of psychiatric knowledge and the pharmaceutical industry on what is transmitted to society regarding this subject.