Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs
, "Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs"
English | ISBN: 082233061X | 2003 | 296 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 082233061X | 2003 | 296 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Pills replaced the couch; neuroscience took the place of talk therapy; and as psychoanalysis faded from the scene, so did the castrating mothers and hysteric spinsters of Freudian theory. Or so the story goes. In Prozac on the Couch, psychiatrist Jonathan Michel Metzl boldly challenges recent psychiatric history, showing that there’s a lot of Dr. Freud encapsulated in late-twentieth-century psychotropic medications. Providing a cultural history of treatments for depression, anxiety, and other mental illnesses through a look at the professional and popular reception of three “wonder drugs”—Miltown, Valium, and Prozac—Metzl explains the surprising ways Freudian gender categories and popular gender roles have shaped understandings of these drugs.
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