Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, & The New Psychiatry: The Birth Of Postpsychiatry - Brossura

Lewis, Bradley

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ISBN 10: 0472031171 ISBN 13: 9780472031177

Casa editrice: Univ of Michigan Pr, 2006

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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

"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.

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• Editore: Univ of Michigan Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0472031171
• ISBN 13: 9780472031177
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 198