Author(s)

Edson Olivari de Castro

UNESP, Bauru, Brazil.

This article aims to discuss some of the problems we can encounter in addressing drug issues, especially in Brazil. It also shows, through the work of some authors, that psychoanalysts must go beyond the frontiers of psychoanalysis itself—overcoming elaborations that individualize the problem through concepts such as personality or structure—to enable a new understanding that can guarantee different strategies of intervention. At the end, it points out questions opened from the indicated problems, which are referring to the discourse of capitalism in the present time.

Drug Addiction, Consumer Culture, Mental Health, Psychoanalysis’ Frontiers, Public Policy’s Limits

de Castro, E. (2017) Psychoanalysis, Mental Health and Drug Issues. Psychology, 8, 1816-1839. doi: 10.4236/psych.2017.811119.