(P/B) MOVING BEYOND PROZAC, DSM, AND THE NEW PSYCHIATRY

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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. (From the publisher)

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Preface
Theorizing Psychiatry
- Dodging the Science Wars: A Theoretical Third Way
- The New Psychiatry as a Discursive Practice
- Psychiatry and Postmodern Theory
- Postdisciplinary Coalitions and Alignments
- Decoding DSM: Bad Science, Bad Rhetoric, Bad Politics
- Prozac and the Posthuman Politics of Cyborgs
- Postempiricism: Imagining a Successor Science for Psychiatry
Epilogue. Postpsychiatry Today
Notes
References
Index