摘要:The questionings presented in this article are due to researches that have been carried out with the support of the Research Support Foundation of the State of São Paulo (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo – FAPESP), concerning the environment, subjectivity and quality of life, through the analysis of the presence of depression in the contemporary context, and through the representations that health professionals have of this malady. That leads us to state that significant changes in mental health diagnosis have taken place. We introduced the subject and the main approaches to the subject, as well as the changes observed in the scientific production, especially in the fields of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, to evidence these transformations, focusing on the dissolution of the hysteria diagnosis and its preponderant replacement by the depression one. Finally, we attempted to specify the theoretical reference for this analysis and the final considerations.
关键词:social-cultural transformations;scientific discourse;hysteria;depression.;transformaciones socio-culturales;discurso de la ciencia;depresión.;transformations socioculturelles, Discours de la science, Hystérie, Dépression.;transformações socio-culturais;discurso da ciência;histeria;depressão.