scholarly journals Performatividad del género, medicalización y salud en mujeres transexuales en Ciudad de México

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 633
Author(s):  
José Arturo Granados Cosme ◽  
Pedro Alberto Hernández Ramírez ◽  
Omar Alejandro Olvera Muñoz
Keyword(s):  
American Psychological Association ◽  
American Psychological ◽  
Mujeres Trans ◽  
Las Mujeres

La Organización Mundial para la Salud y la American Psychological Association consideran que la transexualidad es una patología y plantean la adecuación sexogenérica para el ajuste biopsíquico de las personas trans. Mediante el análisis discursivo de la experiencia, en este estudio se describen los procesos de medicalización y performatividad del género en su relación con la salud de un grupo de mujeres trans de la Ciudad de México, para lo cual se desarrolló un estudio cualitativo en el que se realizaron, en el año 2015, diez entrevistas semiestructuradas. Como parte de la medicalización, la patologización de la transexualidad generó sufrimiento psíquico; por su parte, la adecuación sexogenérica también implicó riesgos adicionales. Se puede concluir que, en las mujeres trans, la violencia y la exclusión resultan las principales experiencias que explican los problemas de salud más relevantes por lo que se sugiere disminuir la discriminación, así como avanzar en intervenciones médicas más seguras.

Fool’s Gold: Psychologists Using Disingenuous Reasoning to Mislead Legislatures into Granting Psychologists Prescriptive Authority

2003 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-524
Author(s):  
Brent Pollitt
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Nurse Practitioners ◽  
Primary Care Physicians ◽  
American Psychological Association ◽  
The United States ◽  
Psychotropic Medications ◽  
American Psychological ◽  
Training Requirements ◽  
Prescriptive Authority

Mental illness is a serious problem in the United States. Based on “current epidemiological estimates, at least one in five people has a diagnosable mental disorder during the course of a year.” Fortunately, many of these disorders respond positively to psychotropic medications. While psychiatrists write some of the prescriptions for psychotropic medications, primary care physicians write more of them. State legislatures, seeking to expand patient access to pharmacological treatment, granted physician assistants and nurse practitioners prescriptive authority for psychotropic medications. Over the past decade other groups have gained some form of prescriptive authority. Currently, psychologists comprise the primary group seeking prescriptive authority for psychotropic medications.The American Society for the Advancement of Pharmacotherapy (“ASAP”), a division of the American Psychological Association (“APA”), spearheads the drive for psychologists to gain prescriptive authority. The American Psychological Association offers five main reasons why legislatures should grant psychologists this privilege: 1) psychologists’ education and clinical training better qualify them to diagnose and treat mental illness in comparison with primary care physicians; 2) the Department of Defense Psychopharmacology Demonstration Project (“PDP”) demonstrated non-physician psychologists can prescribe psychotropic medications safely; 3) the recommended post-doctoral training requirements adequately prepare psychologists to prescribe safely psychotropic medications; 4) this privilege will increase availability of mental healthcare services, especially in rural areas; and 5) this privilege will result in an overall reduction in medical expenses, because patients will visit only one healthcare provider instead of two–one for psychotherapy and one for medication.

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