{"product_id":"prozac-on-the-couch-prescribing-gender-in-the-era-of-wonder-drugs-paperback","title":"Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJonathan Metzl\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePills 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 \u003ci\u003eProzac on the Couch\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 of treatments for depression, anxiety, and other mental illnesses through a look at the professional and popular reception of three \"wonder drugs\"-Miltown, Valium, and Prozac-Metzl explains the surprising ways Freudian gender categories and popular gender roles have shaped understandings of these drugs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProzac on the Couch\u003c\/i\u003e traces the notion of \"pills for everyday worries\" from the 1950s to the early twenty-first century, through psychiatric and medical journals, popular magazine articles, pharmaceutical advertisements, and popular autobiographical \"Prozac narratives.\" Metzl shows how clinical and popular talk about these medications often reproduces all the cultural and social baggage associated with psychoanalytic paradigms-whether in a 1956 \u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e article about research into tranquilizers to \"cure\" frigid women; a 1970s \u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Psychiatry\u003c\/i\u003e ad introducing Jan, a lesbian who \"needs\" Valium to find a man; or Peter Kramer's description of how his patient \"Mrs. Prozac\" meets her husband after beginning treatment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProzac on the Couch\u003c\/i\u003e locates the origins of psychiatry's \"biological revolution\" not in the Valiumania of the 1970s but in American popular culture of the 1950s. It was in the 1950s, Metzl points out, that traditional psychoanalysis had the most sway over the American imagination. As the number of Miltown prescriptions soared (reaching 35 million, or nearly one per second, in 1957), advertisements featuring uncertain brides and unfaithful wives miraculously cured by the \"new\" psychiatric medicines filled popular magazines. Metzl writes without nostalgia for the bygone days of Freudian psychoanalysis and without contempt for psychotropic drugs, which he himself regularly prescribes to his patients. What he urges is an increased self-awareness within the psychiatric community of the ways that Freudian ideas about gender are entangled in Prozac and each new generation of wonder drugs. He encourages, too, an understanding of how ideas about psychotropic medications have suffused popular culture and profoundly altered the relationship between doctors and patients.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eProzac on the Couch\" combines a bold thesis regarding the persistence of Freudian categories of sexual difference amid the paradigm shift in psychiatry, documentation spanning professional and popular discourses, and lively, clear prose.\"--Mari Jo Buhle, author of \"Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan Michel Metzl is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Women's Studies and Director of the Program in Culture, Health, and Medicine at the University of Michigan. In this capacity he works as a senior attending physician in the adult psychiatric clinics and teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has written for the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Psychiatry, the American Journal of Psychotherapy, Academic Medicine, Gender and History, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSIGNS: The Journal of Women, Culture, and Society\u003c\/i\u003e. This is his first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.93 x 9.3 x 6.36 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 20, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52239360000274,"sku":"9780822335245","price":45.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/2211\/5346\/files\/K0NWcldTMmNCazM2MzE4aGxiY2t3QT09.webp?v=1777876062","url":"https:\/\/ckbookstore.net\/products\/prozac-on-the-couch-prescribing-gender-in-the-era-of-wonder-drugs-paperback","provider":"CK BOOKSTORE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}