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In the shadow of diagnosis : psychiatric power and queer life
Title
In the shadow of diagnosis : psychiatric power and queer life / Regina Kunzel.
ISBN
9780226830193
0226830195
9780226831855
022683185X
9780226831848
Publication
Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 2024.
Copyright Notice Date
©2024
Physical Description
233 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary
"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.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 10, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Subjects (Medical)
Sexual and Gender Minorities - psychology.
Sexual and Gender Minorities - classification.
Sexual and Gender Minorities - history.
History, 20th Century.
Genre/Form
Case studies.
Classification.
History.
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