Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs

by Jonathan M. Metzl

Book Overview

Pills replaced the couch; neuroscience took the place of talk therapy; and as psychoanalysis faded from the scene, so did the castrating mothers and hysteric spinsters of Freudian theory. Or so the story goes. In Prozac on the Couch, psychiatrist Jonathan Michel Metzl boldly challenges recent psychiatric history, showing that there's a lot of Dr. Freud encapsulated in late-twentieth-century psychotropic medications. Providing a cultural history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822335247
• ISBN13: 9780822335245
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"