Prozak Diaries
Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12797019 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rachel E Greenspan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 389-391 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-21 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Middle East Women s Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1552-5864 • E-ISSN: 1558-9579 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/15525864-7720767 |
| OpenAlex | W2982059318 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
Book Review| November 01 2019 Prozak Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran Prozak Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran. Behrouzan, Orkideh. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016. 328pages. isbn 9780804799416. Rachel E. Greenspan Rachel E. Greenspan RACHEL E. GREENSPAN is an instructor in culture and media at the New School, Eugene Lang College. Contact: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 389–391. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7720767 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rachel E. Greenspan; Prozak Diaries: Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 1 November 2019; 15 (3): 389–391. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7720767 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsJournal of Middle East Women's Studies Search Advanced Search Prozak Diaries offers a nuanced ethnographic examination of how psychiatric disease categories and their pharmaceutical treatments have been culturally assimilated in Iran, yielding new forms of being and, crucially, new modes of sociality. As the Persian transliteration of Prozac in the book’s title suggests, the global rise of biomedical psychiatry cannot explain the regionally and historically specific lived experience of mental illness. Proposing an alternative to top-down research methods that Orkideh Behrouzan groups under the rubric of “post-Foucauldian” cultural critique, Prozak Diaries investigates the personal narratives of people living with depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), as well as the clinicians working to understand and treat these conditions. Behrouzan brings together testimonies from interviews, blogs, and artistic productions to argue that depression and ADHD have informed “psychiatric subjectivities” mediated by affective attachments to postrevolutionary generational identities in... Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies2019 You do not currently have access to this content
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| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |