Prozac on the couch: prescribing gender in the era of wonder drugs

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...

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1. Verfasser: Metzl, Jonathan (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham [u.a.] Duke Univ. Press 2003
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-257) and index
Beschreibung:XII, 275 S. Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:082233061X
0822335247

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