Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry: The Birth of Postpsychiatry (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability) - Hardcover

Lewis, Bradley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0472114646 ISBN 13: 9780472114641

Verlag: The University of Michigan Press, 2006

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Book by Lewis Bradley

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"Interesting and fresh - represents an important and vigorous challenge to a discipline that at the moment is stuck in its own devices and needs a radical critique to begin to move ahead." - Paul McHugh, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine"

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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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• Verlag: The University of Michigan Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0472114646
• ISBN 13: 9780472114641
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240