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Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry: The Birth of Postpsychiatry
Bradley Lewis
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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.
--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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Cover
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Title
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Copyright
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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Preface
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Chapter One. Theorizing Psychiatry
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Chapter Two. Dodging the Science Wars: A Theoretical Third Way
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Chapter Three. The New Psychiatry as a Discursive Practice
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Chapter Four. Psychiatry and Postmodern Theory
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Chapter Five. Postdisciplinary Coalitions and Alignments
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Chapter Six. Decoding DSM: Bad Science, Bad Rhetoric, Bad Politics
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Chapter Seven. Prozac and the Posthuman Politics of Cyborgs
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Chapter Eight. Postempiricism: Imagining a Successor Science for Psychiatry
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Epilogue. Postpsychiatry Today
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Notes
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References
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Index
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Published: 2006
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 978-0-472-02575-6 (ebook)
- 978-0-472-03117-7 (paper)