Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, & The New Psychiatry

by Lewis, Bradley

• ISBN13: 9780472031177
• ISBN10: 0472031171
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-02
• Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr

Summary

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. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Chapter One. Theorizing Psychiatry	1	(17)
Chapter Two. Dodging the Science Wars: A Theoretical Third Way	18	(20)
Chapter Three. The New Psychiatry as a Discursive Practice	38	(23)
Chapter Four. Psychiatry and Postmodern Theory	61	(19)
Chapter Five. Postdisciplinary Coalitions and Alignments	80	(17)
Chapter Six. Decoding DSM: Bad Science, Bad Rhetoric, Bad Politics	97	(24)
Chapter Seven. Prozac and the Posthuman Politics of Cyborgs	121	(22)
Chapter Eight. Postempiricism: Imagining a Successor Science for Psychiatry	143	(22)
Epilogue. Postpsychiatry Today	165	(8)
Notes	173	(10)
References	183	(12)
Index	195