Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 327 g
Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 327 g
Reihe: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
ISBN: 978-0-472-03117-7
Verlag: University of Michigan Press
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.
