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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jonathan MetzlPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.503kg ISBN: 9780822335245ISBN 10: 0822335247 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 20 April 2005 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsList 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 259ReviewsIn offering an engrossing history of psychiatry over the past 50 years, [Jonathan Michael Metzl] seeks to show that there are indeed connections between Freud and Prozac. The Economist Prozac on the Couch is a creative, intelligent, and provocative challenge to the notion that biologic psychiatry has replaced psychoanalysis as the dominant therapeutic model in psychiatry. Delese Wear, New England Journal of Medicine Full of genuinely fascinating observations... Prozac on the Couch is a thought-provoking and useful book. --Lisa Jervis, Bitch Prozac on the Couch is a totally fresh and mind-altering work of medical history and cultural criticism that challenges us to think about psychiatric medications in ways that are both uncomfortable and inspiring: in other words, in ways that challenge us to change our points of view about what we swallow and why. --Lauren Slater, author of Prozac Diary Prozac on the Couch ... takes on biological psychiatry's master narrative--which tells of the triumph of disinterested neuroscience over a range of gender-inflected pseudo-scientific therapeutic practices--and persuasively, with wit and elegance, deals it a devastating blow. --Elizabeth Lunbeck, Isis Jonathan Michel Metzl's book is an original and insightful exploration of the lively cultural meanings he locates in the spaces between the person, the psychotropic drug, the physician, and the neuroscientist. --Emily Martin, author of The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction 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 Prozac on the Couch is a totally fresh and mind-altering work of medical history and cultural criticism that challenges us to think about psychiatric medications in ways that are both uncomfortable and inspiring: in other words, in ways that challenge us to change our points of view about what we swallow and why. -- Lauren Slater, author of Prozac Diary Jonathan Michel Metzl's book is an original and insightful exploration of the lively cultural meanings he locates in the spaces between the person, the psychotropic drug, the physician, and the neuroscientist. -- Emily Martin, author of The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction 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 [A] plea for a truce between those who deal with the mind and those who study the brain... [An] engrossing history of psychiatry over the past 50 years... The Economist Prozac on the Couch is a creative, intelligent, and provocative challenge to the notion that biologic psychiatry has replaced psychoanalysis as the dominant therapeutic model in psychiatry... [A]n intriguing and challenging work standing at the intersection of medicine, history, culture, and 'gender studies.' ... [F]or those who are looking for fresh perspectives, and who are willing to have their assumptions questioned, this book will be a real education and a pleasure to read. -- Delese Wear New England Journal of Medicine Jonathan Metzl's provocative book ... takes on biological psychiatry's master narrative ... and persuasively, with wit and elegance, deals it a devastating blow... Sparkling insights abound in Prozac on the Couch... [A] delightful, challenging book that will be of great interest to historians of psychiatry and, more generally, to anyone interested in the intriguing gender politics of psychopharmacology. -- Elizabeth Lunbeck Isis Author InformationJonathan Michel Metzl is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Women's Studies and Director of the Program in Culture, Health, and Medicine at the University of Michigan. In this capacity he works as a senior attending physician in the adult psychiatric clinics and teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has written for the American Journal of Psychiatry, the American Journal of Psychotherapy, Academic Medicine, Gender and History, and SIGNS: The Journal of Women, Culture, and Society. This is his first book. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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