PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN VIDEOCONFERENCE THIS FRIDAY (30)

Continuing the activities of the Psychopharmacology module of the Medicine course, the 4th year students participate, no.this friday (30), of another class via videoconference at the Center for the Development of Educational Technologies – CEDETE. The class will be taught from 14h by the teacher Milena Ponde, directly from McGill University, Canada, where she is pursuing her Postdoctoral Fellowship. 

 The class will feature the participation of the guest professor, Nicholas Mereau, Ph.D. in Sociology, adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa, member of the cross-cultural research and intervention team at McGill Univercity, where he conducts studies on medicine as a social and cultural object. On the occasion, Prof. Mereau will talk about “Antidepressants: between mutism and behavior regulation”.

This conference will consist of a presentation of the concrete role of anti-depressants on the behavior of individuals, taking as an example the perception of time for the depressed individual. “We will see that antidepressants constitute, by their function of normalizing time, an embodiment of bio-power. Even though they are less devilish than anti-depressants, certain psychological techniques work in the same way, that is, regulation and normalization of a body with no history and no possibility of narrative. So, the fight would be above all in relation to the status that is given to the body in contemporary Western societies, as opposed to a sterile struggle between anti-depressants and psychotherapy”, explains the sociologist and professor.