| Description |
xii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: The Freud of Prozac -- 2. The Name of the Father, the Place of the Medication: A Brief History of Psychiatry, 1955-2002 -- 3. Anxiety, the Crisis of Psychoanalysis, and the Miltown Resolution, 1955-60 -- 4. The Gendered Psychodynamics of Pharmaceutical Advertising, 1964-97 -- 5. Prozac and the Pharmacokinetics of Narrative Form, 1994-2002 -- 6. Conclusion |
| Summary |
Jonathan Michel Metzl, a psychiatrist and women's studies scholar, shows that there's a lot of Dr. Freud encapsulated in late-twentieth-century psychotropic medications. Metzl provides a cultural history of psychiatric "wonder drugs" from the 1950's to the early twenty-first century. in tracing a lineage from Miltown to Valium to Prozac, he uncovers the surprising ways that Freudian gender categories and popular gender roles continue to shape understandings of depression and its treatment |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references: pages [239]-257 |
| Subject |
Medicine -- Mental health.
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Women -- Mental health.
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Fluoxetine.
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Neuropsychiatry.
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Psychopharmacology.
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Psychoanalysis.
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Gender identity.
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| LC no. |
2002151959 |
| ISBN |
0822335247 paperback |
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082233061X alkaline paper |
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0822330733 alkaline paper |
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