Description: Prozak Diaries : Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran, Hardcover by Behrouzan, Orkideh, ISBN 0804797420, ISBN-13 9780804797429, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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, th 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, th 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.
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Book Title: Prozak Diaries : Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran
Number of Pages: 328 Pages
Publication Name: Prozak Diaries : Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 2016
Subject: Sociology / General, Developmental / Adolescent, Psychopathology / Depression, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Psychiatry / General, Disease & Health Issues
Item Height: 1 in
Item Weight: 21.9 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Orkideh Behrouzan
Subject Area: Social Science, Psychology, Medical
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
