The Black Girl On Prozac
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The Black Girl On Prozac
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Author : Andrea Elizabeth Paul
language : en
Publisher: Boss Publishing
Release Date : 2015-06-25
The Black Girl On Prozac written by Andrea Elizabeth Paul and has been published by Boss Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-25 with categories.
How do you act? How do you react? What do you do? The Black Girl on Prozac digs deep into the life and thoughts of a once "normal" woman diagnosed with depression and anxiety and prescribed medication. The Black Girl on Prozac is an easy read for anyone struggling with mental health issues and for those who may know someone with mental illness. This is a diary, of sorts, that travels from happiness, sadness, anger, indifference, rage, mania, confusion, and acceptance. This story takes you through the mind of a girl who has no idea how to navigate this new territory, so she shares her feelings with her trusted iPhone.
The Bipolar Black Girl
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Author : Andrea Elizabeth Paul
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-04-26
The Bipolar Black Girl written by Andrea Elizabeth Paul and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-26 with categories.
#AdventuresWithDrea... Continued. There was nothing, then, there was everything. Feeling as though she's losing control, Andrea is clueless on what to do next. Her mind has defeated her so badly that it lands her in the psychiatric ward. Through her mental illness, Andrea rides a roller coaster of emotions and experiences that make her question, "Am I really crazy?" Diagnosed with bipolar 1 disorder and experiencing a mental breakdown, Andrea is lost in her own world where nothing seems real any longer. How could a perfectly sane girl be bipolar? Follow Andrea as she finds light within her mental illness tunnel. In the same vein as The Black Girl on Prozac, The Bipolar Black Girl aims to shed a light on mental illness in the black community by sharing the account of a regular black girl trying to understand life while living daily with bipolar 1 disorder.
Prozac On The Couch
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Author : Jonathan Metzl
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2003-04-16
Prozac On The Couch written by Jonathan Metzl and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-16 with Medical categories.
Pills 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 Prozac on the Couch, 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. Prozac on the Couch 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 Cosmopolitan article about research into tranquilizers to “cure” frigid women; a 1970s American Journal of Psychiatry 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. Prozac on the Couch 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.
Prozac Nation
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Author : Elizabeth Wurtzel
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2014-11-04
Prozac Nation written by Elizabeth Wurtzel and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Elizabeth Wurtzel's New York Times best-selling memoir, with a new afterword "Sparkling, luminescent prose . . . A powerful portrait of one girl's journey through the purgatory of depression and back." —New York Times "A book that became a cultural touchstone." —New Yorker Elizabeth Wurtzel writes with her finger on the faint pulse of an overdiagnosed generation whose ruling icons are Kurt Cobain, Xanax, and pierced tongues. Her famous memoir of her bouts with depression and skirmishes with drugs, Prozac Nation is a witty and sharp account of the psychopharmacology of an era for readers of Girl, Interrupted and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar.
Prozac Diary
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Author : Lauren Slater
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-06-01
Prozac Diary written by Lauren Slater and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The author of the acclaimed Welcome to My Country describes in this provocative and funny memoir the ups and downs of living on Prozac for ten years, and the strange adjustments she had to make to living "normal life." Today millions of people take Prozac, but Lauren Slater was one of the first. In this rich and beautifully written memoir, she describes what it's like to spend most of your life feeling crazy--and then to wake up one day and find yourself in the strange state of feeling well. And then to face the challenge of creating a whole new life. Once inhibited, Slater becomes spontaneous. Once terrified of maintaining a job, she accepts a teaching position and ultimately earns several degrees in psychology. Once lonely, she finds love with a man who adores her. Slater is wonderfully thoughtful and articulate about all of these changes, and also about the downside of taking Prozac: such matters as dependency, sexual dysfunction, and Prozac "poop-out." "The beauty of Lauren Slater's prose is shocking," said Newsday about Welcome to My Country, and Slater's remarkable gifts as a writer are present here in sentences that are like elegant darts, hitting at the center of the deepest human feelings. Prozac Diary is a wonderfully written report from inside a decade on Prozac, and an original writer's acute observations on the challenges of living modern life.
Behind The Mask Of The Strong Black Woman
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Author : Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-26
Behind The Mask Of The Strong Black Woman written by Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-26 with Psychology categories.
Explores the restrictive myth of the strong black woman through interviews, revealing the emotional and physical toll this "performance" can have.
The Disability Studies Reader
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Author : Lennard J. Davis
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2006
The Disability Studies Reader written by Lennard J. Davis and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Political Science categories.
The second edition of "The Disability Studies Reader" builds and improves upon the classic first edition, which has sold well over 6000 copies since 1999. As a field, disability studies burst onto the scene across the social sciences and humanities in the 1990s, and the first edition of the reader gathered the best work that had been written on the subject, including essays by famous authors such as Susan Sontag and Erving Goffman. The new edition is more global in its coverage and adds material on genetic testing, the human genome, queer studies, and issues in developing countries. The size of the audience has grown since the first edition's publication, and the second edition's new material will make it even more useful for courses on the subject. Courses on the subject have mushroomed in the past ten years, and can now be found across the social sciences, humanities, and behavioral sciences.
Prozac As A Way Of Life
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Author : Carl Elliott
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2016-08-15
Prozac As A Way Of Life written by Carl Elliott and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-15 with Medical categories.
Prozac and its chemical cousins, Paxil, Celexa, and Zoloft, are some of the most profitable and most widely used drugs in America. Their use in the treatment of a multitude of disorders--from generalized anxiety disorder and premenstrual syndrome to eating disorders and sexual compulsions--has provoked a whirlwind of public debate. Talk shows ask, Why is Prozac so popular? What, exactly, do these drugs treat? But sustained critical discussion among bioethicists and medical humanists has been surprisingly absent. The eleven essays in Prozac as a Way of Life provide the groundwork for a much-needed philosophical discussion of the ethical and cultural dimensions of the popularity of SSRI antidepressants. Focusing on the increasing use of medication as a means of self-enhancement, contributors from the fields of psychiatry, psychology, bioethics, and the medical humanities address issues of identity enhancement, the elasticity of psychiatric diagnosis, and the aggressive marketing campaigns of pharmaceutical companies. They do not question the fact that these antidepressants can, in some cases, provide great benefit to alleviate real suffering. What they do question is the abundant popularity of these drugs and that popularity's relationship to American culture and ideas of selfhood. Contributors: Tod Chambers, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago David DeGrazia, George Washington University James C. Edwards, Furman University Carl Elliott, University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics David Healy, University of Wales College of Medicine Laurence J. Kirmayer, McGill University Peter D. Kramer, Brown University Erik Parens, The Hastings Center Lauren Slater, AfterCare Services, Boston Susan Squier, Pennsylvania State University Laurie Zoloth, Northwestern University Center for Genetic Medicine, Chicago
Black Madness
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Author : Therí Alyce Pickens
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-07
Black Madness written by Therí Alyce Pickens and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Black Madness :: Mad Blackness Therí Alyce Pickens rethinks the relationship between Blackness and disability, unsettling the common theorization that they are mutually constitutive. Pickens shows how Black speculative and science fiction authors such as Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, and Tananarive Due craft new worlds that reimagine the intersection of Blackness and madness. These creative writer-theorists formulate new parameters for thinking through Blackness and madness. Pickens considers Butler's Fledgling as an archive of Black madness that demonstrates how race and ability shape subjectivity while constructing the building blocks for antiracist and anti-ableist futures. She examines how Hopkinson's Midnight Robber theorizes mad Blackness and how Due's African Immortals series contests dominant definitions of the human. The theorizations of race and disability that emerge from these works, Pickens demonstrates, challenge the paradigms of subjectivity that white supremacy and ableism enforce, thereby pointing to the potential for new forms of radical politics.
Let Them Eat Prozac
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Author : David Healy
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2006-10
Let Them Eat Prozac written by David Healy and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10 with Medical categories.
A psychiatrist provides an insider account on the controversial use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) Prozac. Paxil. Zoloft. Turn on your television and you are likely to see a commercial for one of the many selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) on the market. We hear a lot about them, but do we really understand how these drugs work and what risks are involved for anyone who uses them? Let Them Eat Prozac explores the history of SSRIs—from their early development to their latest marketing campaigns—and the controversies that surround them. Initially, they seemed like wonder drugs for those with mild to moderate depression. When Prozac was released in the late 1980s, David Healy was among the psychiatrists who prescribed it. But he soon observed that some of these patients became agitated and even attempted suicide. Could the new wonder drug actually be making patients worse? Healy draws on his own research and expertise to demonstrate the potential hazards associated with these drugs. He intersperses case histories with insider accounts of the research leading to the development and approval of SSRIs as a treatment for depression. Let Them Eat Prozac clearly demonstrates that the problems go much deeper than a side-effect of a particular drug. The pharmaceutical industry would like us to believe that SSRIs can safely treat depression, anxiety, and a host of other mental problems. But, as Let Them Eat Prozac reveals, this “cure” may be worse than the disease.