Abstract
This article analyzes the borderline psychiatric disorder from an anthropological perspective. Using ethnographic material from a larger research in a mental institution in Buenos Aires city, this article argues that “suffering embodiment”, evident in these patients through the management of the body in interactions and in self harms (e.g., cuts in the body), is a consequence of corporal dispositions generated by intervention, disciplining, and subjection practices on patients’ bodies during their psychiatric trajectories.