| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs. By Jonathan Michel Metzl. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. xviii, 275 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8223-3061-X.)
Why should professional historians be interested in a book by a clinical psychiatrist and first-time author who is enamored of psychoanalysis and takes a postmodern perspective on the social history of psychopharmacology over the past fifty years?	1
First, a psychiatrist is a historian, in a way, if one considers there to be a dynamic relation between the history of psychiatry, taking a patient history, and the kind of historical struggle involved in the process of self-knowledge that every psychiatrist hopes will be the outcome of successful therapy. In this case, of course, the psychiatrist is analyzing culture at large, and the historians interested in his work are a way that culture can talk back.	. . .

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