Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry by Bradley Lewis

Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry by Bradley Lewis

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.

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

Bradley Lewis, M.D., Ph.D, is a psychiatrist at the New York University Medical Center and teaches in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

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ISBN 13	9780472031177
ISBN 10	0472031171
Title	Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry
Author	Bradley Lewis
Series	Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The University of Michigan Press
Year published	2006-01-30
Number of pages	240
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