Publication

2003 - Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina

Language

English

Word Count

68,750 words, Guess

Page Count

275 pages

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  • WikidataQ57233574
  • LibraryThing1315031

Classifications

  • LCCRC341 .M593 2003

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.

Subjects

Topics

HistoryPsychiatryFluoxetineAdvertisingSex factorsDrug therapyPsychanalyse

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