Moving beyond Prozac, DSM, & the new psychiatry : the birth of postpsychiatry / Bradley Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Bradley, 1956-

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Corporealities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatry--Methodology.

Psychiatry and the humanities.

Humanities.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 198 pages).

Other Title:

Moving beyond Prozac, DSM, and the new psychiatry

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2006.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Interesting and fresh-represents an important and vigorous challenge to a discipline that at the moment is stuck in its own devices and needs a radical critique to begin to move ahead." --Paul McHugh, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine "Remarkable in its breadth-an interesting and valuable contribution to the burgeoning literature of the philosophy of psychiatry." --Christian Perring, Dowling College Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry looks at contemporary psychiatric practice from a variety of critical perspectives ranging from Michel Foucault to Donna Haraway. This contribution to the burgeoning field of medical humanities contends that psychiatry's move away from a theory-based model (one favoring psychoanalysis and other talk therapies) to a more scientific model (based on new breakthroughs in neuroscience and pharmacology) has been detrimental to both the profession and its clients. This shift toward a science-based model includes the codification of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders to the status of standard scientific reference, enabling mental-health practitioners to assign a tidy classification for any mental disturbance or deviation. Psychiatrist and cultural studies scholar Bradley Lewis argues for "postpsychiatry," a new psychiatric practice informed by the insights of poststructuralist theory.

Contents:

Theorizing psychiatry

Dodging the science wars : a theoretical third way

The new psychiatry as a discursive practice

Psychiatry and postmodern theory

Postdisciplinary coalitions and alignments

Decoding DSM : bad science, bad rhetoric, bad politics

Prozac and the posthuman politics of cyborgs

Postempiricism : imagining a successor science for psychiatry

Postpsychiatry today.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472025756

0472114646

0472031171

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.93209

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.