ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the close connection between the current debate about mental ailments and the treatment hereof and political ideologies and goals. It explains the basic conditions of the scientific character and transformation of the current knowledge, understanding, and treatment of mental and social problems in contemporary society. It revolves mainly around development of certain governmental technologies in Danish psychiatry, specifically the evidence-based practice (EBP) and evidence-based medicine (EBM), the psycho-educative practice and the practice of diagnostics. The chapter focuses on the construction of basic categories and forms of intervention which the technological solutions legitimate and are based on. It describes the way that Rose, just like Dean, emphasizes the fact that the degree of individual freedom established through ideas of the autonomous subject is historically unprecedented. It focuses mainly on the loud silence that has surrounded the practice of uncovering the aetiology and sociogenesis of mental symptoms. The chapter suggests interdisciplinary attention to the multicausal ontology of psychiatric illnesses.
