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Why do some people still choose psychoanalysis-Freud's so-called talking cure-when numerous medications are available that treat the symptoms of psychic distress so much faster? Elisabeth Roudinesco tackles this difficult question, exploring what she sees as a "depressive society": an epidemic of distress addressed only by an increasing reliance on prescription drugs.
Far from contesting the efficacy of new medications like Prozac, Zoloft, and Viagra in alleviating the symptoms of any number of mental or nervous conditions, Roudinesco argues that the use of such drugs fails to solve patients' real problems. In the man who takes Viagra without ever wondering why he is suffering from impotence and the woman who is given antidepressants to deal with the loss of a loved one, Roudinesco sees a society obsessed with efficiency and desperate for the quick fix.
She argues that "the talking cure" and pharmacology represent not just different approaches to psychiatry, but different worldviews. The rush to treat symptoms is itself symptomatic of an antiseptic and depressive culture in which thought is reduced to the firing of neurons and desire is just a chemical secretion. In contrast, psychoanalysis testifies to human freedom and the power of language.
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Elisabeth Roudinesco teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She is the author of twelve other books, including Jacques Lacan (Columbia 1999) and Revolution and Madness: The Lives and Legends of Theroigne de Mericourt.Rachel Bowlby is a professor of English at the University of York. She has written Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping(Columbia 2001); Feminist Destinations and Further Essays on Virginia Woolf; Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreise, Gissing, and Zola; Still Crazy After All These Years: Woman, Writing, and Psychoanalysis; and Shopping with Freud.
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Condition: Muy bueno. : En este libro, Elisabeth Roudinesco explora por qué algunas personas aún eligen el psicoanálisis, la llamada "cura hablada" de Freud, cuando existen numerosos medicamentos disponibles que tratan los síntomas de la angustia psíquica mucho más rápido. Roudinesco aborda esta difícil cuestión, explorando lo que ella ve como una "sociedad depresiva": una epidemia de angustia que se aborda solo mediante una creciente dependencia de los medicamentos recetados. Lejos de cuestionar la eficacia de nuevos medicamentos como Prozac, Zoloft y Viagra para aliviar los síntomas de cualquier número de afecciones mentales o nerviosas, Roudinesco argumenta que el uso de tales drogas no resuelve los problemas reales de los pacientes. EAN: 9780231122030 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Filosofía Título: Why Psychoanalysis? Autor: Elisabeth Roudinesco Editorial: Columbia University Press Idioma: en Páginas: 184 Formato: tapa blanda. Seller Inventory # Happ-2026-03-06-15a9b7c5
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