Arguing that Freud enjoys new life in the medications prescribed by psychologists and psychiatrists, the author takes the Prozac culture to task, focusing on the gender issues underlying the prescript
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 st
In these 12 essays and responses, contributors explore the complex ways in which attitudes about disease, difference and disability are related and how bodies marked by particular gender, racial, disa
