Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry : The Birth of Postpsychiatry Paperback / softback
by Bradley Lewis
Part of the Corporealities: Discourses of Disability series
Paperback / softback
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Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry offers an analysis and critique of 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 towards a science-based model includes the codification of the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders to the status of standard scientific reference, enabling mental-health practitioners to assign tidy classifications 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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:The University of Michigan Press
- Publication Date:01/01/2006
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- ISBN:9780472031177
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:The University of Michigan Press
- Publication Date:01/01/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780472031177
