Prozac on the Couch

Author	: Jonathan Metzl
Publisher	: Duke University Press
Total Pages	: 275
Release	: 2003-04-16
ISBN 10	: 082233061X
ISBN 13	: 9780822330615
Language	: EN, FR, DE, ES & NL

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Prozac on the Couch Book Description:

Arguing that Freud enjoys new life in the medications prescribed by psychologists and psychiatrists, the author takes the Prozac culture to task, focusing on the gender issues underlying the prescription of this powerful drug. (Psychology & Self-Help)

Language: en
Pages: 275

Prozac on the Couch

Authors: Jonathan Metzl

Categories: Medical

Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-04-16 - Publisher: Duke University Press

Arguing that Freud enjoys new life in the medications prescribed by psychologists and psychiatrists, the author takes the Prozac culture to task, focusing on th

Language: en
Pages: 384

Animal Madness

Authors: Laurel Braitman

Categories: Nature

Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-10 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

A science historian examines parallels between the ways humans and animals express feelings and experience mental decline, tracing her studies of emotionally di

Language: en
Pages: 256

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Authors: Ali Haggett

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-06 - Publisher: Routledge

Although the figure of the ‘desperate housewife’ is familiar to us, Haggett suggests that many women in the 1950s and ’60s led satisfying lives and that g

Language: en
Pages: 268

Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem, 1936-1968

Authors: Dennis A. Doyle

Categories: Medical

Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-20 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Reveals the history of the individuals who worked to make psychiatry more available to Harlem's black community in the early Civil Rights Era.

Language: en
Pages: 278

Depression

Authors: Ann Cvetkovich

Categories: Psychology

Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-05 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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Language: en
Pages: 560

An Anthropology of Biomedicine

Authors: Margaret Lock

Categories: Social Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-20 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

In this fully revised and updated second edition of An Anthropology of Biomedicine, authors Lock and Nguyen introduce biomedicine from an anthropological perspe

Language: en
Pages: 296

Happy Pills in America

Authors: David Herzberg

Categories: Medical

Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-01 - Publisher: JHU Press

With a barrage of “ask your doctor about” advertisements competing for attention with shocking news of drug company malfeasance, Happy Pills is an invaluabl

Language: en
Pages: 320

Sybil Exposed

Authors: Debbie Nathan

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-12 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Documents the stories of the three women behind the famous multiple-personality-disorder case, contending that a large portion of the story was fabricated by a

Language: en
Pages: 219

Re/Imagining Depression

Authors: Julie Hollenbach

Categories: Social Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-21 - Publisher: Springer Nature

What is depression? An “imagined sun, bright and black at the same time?” A “noonday demon?” In literature, poetry, comics, visual art, and film, we wit

Language: en
Pages: 368

Drugs & Media

Authors: Robert C. MacDougall

Categories: Social Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-24 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

We have developed into a culture that is over-reliant upon pharmaceutical and recreational drugs; where drugs are incessantly advertised and promoted to us via