Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery by Davis, Joseph E.

Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery

Everyday suffering--those conditions or feelings brought on by trying circumstances that arise in everyone's lives--is something that...
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Author: Joseph E. Davis
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Language: English
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Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery by Davis, Joseph E.

Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery

€76,77

Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery

€76,77
Author: Joseph E. Davis
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Everyday suffering--those conditions or feelings brought on by trying circumstances that arise in everyone's lives--is something that humans have grappled with for millennia. But the last decades have seen a drastic change in the way we approach it. In the past, a person going through a time of difficulty might keep a journal or see a therapist, but now the psychological has been replaced by the biological: instead of treating the heart, soul, and mind, we take a pill to treat the brain.

Chemically Imbalanced is a field report on how ordinary people dealing with common problems explain their suffering, how they're increasingly turning to the thin and mechanistic language of the "body/brain," and what these encounters might tell us. Drawing on interviews with people dealing with struggles such as underperformance in school or work, grief after the end of a relationship, or disappointment with how their life is unfolding, Joseph E. Davis reveals the profound revolution in consciousness that is underway. We now see suffering as an imbalance in the brain that needs to be fixed, usually through chemical means. This has rippled into our social and cultural conversations, and it has affected how we, as a society, imagine ourselves and envision what constitutes a good life. Davis warns that what we envision as a neurological revolution, in which suffering is a mechanistic problem, has troubling and entrapping consequences. And he makes the case that by turning away from an interpretive, meaning-making view of ourselves, we thwart our chances to enrich our souls and learn important truths about ourselves and the social conditions under which we live.

Author: Joseph E. Davis
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 03/10/2020
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780226686684


Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2020

About the Author
Joseph E. Davis is research professor of sociology and moderator of the picturing the human colloquy of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Accounts of Innocence: Sexual Abuse, Trauma, and the Self, also from the University of Chicago Press, and coeditor, most recently, of To Fix or to Heal: Patient Care, Public Health, and the Limits of Biomedicine and The Evening of Life: The Challenges of Aging and Dying Well.


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