Having as a start the changes occurred in Psychiatry, in the 50’s, which were later called psychopharmacological revolution, the author aims to investigate the way and the purpose the medicine has been employed nowadays. Also, the role carried out by pharmaceutical industry in this context is analyzed. It was concluded that medicine can be employed as a way to achieve an adjustment to a system of values previously establishes, looking for a solution of all human conflicts through a medicine, or it can be an instrument of freedom and changes.
Psychopharmacological revolution; medicalization; changes