In 2002, in a contribution to the preparation of the fifth edition of the DSM, the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (released in 2013), a group of prominent biological psychiatrists remarked that psychiatry had “thus far failed to identify a single neurobiological phenotypic marker or gene that is useful in making a diagnosis of a major psychiatric disorder or for predicting response to psychopharmacologic treatment” (Charney et al. 2002, 33). Over a decade later the situation has not changed.
Inspired by the homonymous book by Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega, this timespace presents the authors' genealogy of the cerebral subject and the influence of the neurological discourse in human sciences, mental health and culture.
