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Prozak Diaries

By Orkideh Behrouzan

Prozak Diaries

By Orkideh Behrouzan

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Prozak Diaries is an analysis of emerging psychiatric discourses in post-1980s Iran. It examines a cultural shift in how people interpret and express their feeling states, by adopting the language of psychiatry, and shows how experiences that were once articulated in the richly layered poetics of the Persian language became, by the 1990s, part of a clinical discourse on mood and affect. In asking how psychiatric dialect becomes a language of everyday, the book analyzes cultural forms created by this clinical discourse, exploring individual, professional, and generational cultures of medicalization in various sites from clinical encounters and psychiatric training, to intimate interviews, works of art and media, and Persian blogs. Through the lens of psychiatry, the book reveals how historical experiences are negotiated and how generations are formed. Orkideh Behrouzan traces the historical circumstances that prompted the development of psychiatric discourses in Iran and reveals the ways in which they both reflect and actively shape Iranians' cultural sensibilities. A physician and an anthropologist, she combines clinical and anthropological perspectives in order to investigate the gray areas between memory and everyday life, between individual symptoms and generational remembering. Prozak Diaries offers an exploration of language as experience. In interpreting clinical and generational narratives, Behrouzan writes not only a history of psychiatry in contemporary Iran, but a story of how stories are told.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
328
Release Date:
2016-10-26
Publication Date:
2016-10-26
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0804799415
ISBN13:
9780804799416
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
491 g
Height:
151 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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