| Moving Beyond Prozac, Dsm, and the New Psychiatry: The Birth of Postpsychiatry Contributor(s): Lewis, Bradley (Author) |
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ISBN: 0472031171 ISBN-13: 9780472031177 Publisher: University of Michigan Press OUR PRICE: $30.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2006 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Psychiatry - Psychopharmacology |
| Dewey: 616.89 |
| LCCN: 2005020756 |
| Series: Corporealities |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.36" W x 9" (0.72 lbs) 216 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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 "Remarkable in its breadth-an interesting and valuable contribution to the burgeoning literature of the philosophy of psychiatry." --Christian Perring, Dowling College Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry looks at 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 toward a science-based model includes the codification of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders to the status of standard scientific reference, enabling mental-health practitioners to assign a tidy classification 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. |