Prozac on the couch
Subtitle: prescribing gender in the era of wonder drugs
By: Jonathan Michel Metzl.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Neuropsychiatry.; Psychopharmacology.; Psychoanalysis.; Gender identity.; Mental Disorders -- drug therapy -- United States.; Psychiatry -- history -- United States.; Advertising -- history -- United States.; Drug Industry -- history -- United States.; Psychotropic Drugs -- history -- United States.; Sex Factors -- United States.; Social Values -- United States.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-257) and index.