In the shadow of diagnosis psychiatric power and queer life / Regina Kunzel.
| Author/creator | Kunzel, Regina G., 1959- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2024. |
| Description | 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The violent optimism of American psychiatry -- Fixing queerness -- Psychiatric power and queer life -- Psychiatric encounters -- The queer politics of health -- Epilogue: the queer afterlives of psychiatric power. |
| Abstract | "Regina Kunzel here draws upon previously unseen case files to argue for a much subtler understanding of how 20th-century LGBTQ Americans conceived of themselves and the diagnoses they received from psychiatrists, showing the ways in which they assimilated, accommodated, challenged, rejected, and rearticulated the judgment that they were sick. She argues that, as central as psychiatry was to LGBTQ identity, the discipline's own expanding claims to authority were anchored in its assertion of expertise over gender and sexual difference. That is, shrinks told people they were sick; but in both acquiescing to and resisting this diagnosis, those people showed that shrinks were powerful"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-224) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023028646 |
| ISBN | 9780226830193 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 9780226831855 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |