Prozac on the couch : prescribing gender in the era of wonder drugs / Jonathan Michel Metzl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Metzl, Jonathan, 1964-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neuropsychiatry.

Psychopharmacology.

Psychoanalysis.

Gender identity.

Medicine--Mental health.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references: p. [239]-257.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822386704

0822386704

OCLC:

850220043