超高齢化が進み、人々が人生のあらゆる時期において脳神経的障害の可能性を意識しながら生き始めている日本においては「ライフサイクルの精神医療化」とでも呼べる状況が進行している。人生の節目節目において発達障害、うつ病、認知症といった病の可能性を視野に入れ、身体のみならず、心や脳の健康を維持・向上させることが自然となりつつある。そのような状況下、精神医学のケアが病院から地域へと移行する過程で隆盛した「新健康主義」に着目し、特に認知症や発達障害の当事者運動が心や脳をどう語り始めているのかを分析することで、「脳神経科学的共感」と名付けたあらたな共感の可能性について論じた。
In Japan, where the population is super-aging and people are beginning to live with an awareness of the possibility of neurological disorders at every stage of their lives, this research has investigated the rise of what could be called the "psychiatricization of the life cycle." Aware of such disease categories as developmental disorders, depression, and dementia, people are becoming more and more aware of the need to maintain and improve not only their physical health but also their mental and cerebral health at every stage of their lives. By focusing on the "new healthism" that is arising at the time when psychiatric care is shifting from the hospital to the community, I have analyzed how people with psychiatric disorders are beginning to talk about themselves and to each other about the health of the mind and the brain. I argue that through this process, there is emerging a new form of empathy, or what we might call "neurobiological empathy."

研究種目 : 基盤研究 (C) (一般)
研究期間 : 2019～2022
課題番号 : 19K01205
研究分野 : 医療人類学