Jonathan Metzl

Prozac on the Couch

Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs

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Produktbeschreibung

""Prozac on the Couch" combines a bold thesis regarding the persistence of Freudian categories of sexual difference amid the paradigm shift in psychiatry, documentation spanning professional and popular discourses, and lively, clear prose."--Mari Jo Buhle, author of "Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis"

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 158mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9780822330615
• ISBN-10: 082233061X
• Artikelnr.: 21977796

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Michel Metzl

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures ix
Acknowledgments xi
List of Abbreviations xii
1. Introduction: The Freud of Prozac 1
2. The Name of the Father, the Place of the Medication: A Brief History of
Psychiatry, 1955–2002 23
3. Anxiety, the Crisis of Psychoanalysis, and the Miltown Resolution,
1955–60 71
4. The Gendered Psychodynamics of Pharmaceutical Advertising, 1964–97 127
5. Prozac and the Pharmacokinetics of Narrative Form, 1994–2002 165
6. Conclusion 195
Notes 201
Bibliography 239
Index 259