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100 _aBehrouzan, Orkideh
_99865
245 _aProzak diaries: Psychiatry and generational memory in Iran
260 _bStanford University Press --
_c2016
_aUnited States of America --
300 _avi, 312p.
520 _aProzak 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.
650 _aSocial sciences
_98148
650 _aSocial problems
_98524
650 _aAdolescent
_99866
650 _aAntidepressants
_99867
650 _aDepression, Mental
_99868
650 _aIran
_99869
650 _aPsychiatry
_99870
650 _aYouth Psychology
_99871
942 _cBK