Chemically Imbalanced everyday suffering, medication, and our troubled quest for self-mastery / Joseph E. Davis.
| Author/creator | Davis, Joseph E. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2020. |
| Description | xii, 244 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The Neurobiological Imaginary -- The Biologization of Everyday Suffering -- Appropriating Disorder -- Resisting Differentness -- Seeking Viable Selfhood -- After Psychology --Conclusion: A Crisis of the Spirit. |
| Abstract | "In Everyday Suffering, sociologist Joseph E. Davis explores the motivations of the millions of Americans who take mood-altering drugs not for a serious mental illness, but to help deal with the problems and suffering of everyday life. Whereas in the past, a person going through a time of difficulty might keep a journal or see a therapist, the psychological has been replaced by the biological: instead of treating the heart, soul, and mind, we now take a prescription to treat the brain. Davis explores how this change has affected our sense of ourselves as people in the world. What do ordinary people find compelling in neurobiological interpretations and interventions? And what do these interpretations and interventions help them to be? In the end, Davis argues for more reflection on our social emotions in a way that neurobiological diagnoses drive out, for the frameworks that valorize everyday suffering as an opportunity to enrich the soul, to learn important truths about ourselves and the human condition. We miss out when we let a pill take those opportunities away"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019025708 |
| ISBN | 9780226686684 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9780226686547 (cloth) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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