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By Jonathan Michel Metzl. 275 pp., illustrated. Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 2003. $24.95. ISBN 0-8223-3061-X.

Prozac on the Couch is a creative, intelligent, and provocative challenge to the notion that biologic psychiatry has replaced psychoanalysis as the dominant therapeutic model in psychiatry. Tracing treatments for depression, anxiety, and other mental illnesses from the 1950s to the early 21st century, psychiatrist Jonathan Metzl builds an argument that "the history of Freud is specifically the history of Prozac" by showing how "psychoanalytic themes and psychoanalytic notions of gender keep showing up in representations of biological psychiatry." He does so through closely reading representations of psychotropic medications in popular news and fashion magazines from the mid-1950s through the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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