In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life

A look at the history of psychiatry's foundational impact on the lives of queer and gender-variant people....
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Author: Regina G. Kunzel
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Language: English
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In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life by Kunzel, Regina G.

In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life

$98.63

In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life

$98.63
Author: Regina G. Kunzel
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A look at the history of psychiatry's foundational impact on the lives of queer and gender-variant people.

In the mid-twentieth century, American psychiatrists proclaimed homosexuality a mental disorder, one that was treatable and amenable to cure. Drawing on a collection of previously unexamined case files from St. Elizabeths Hospital, In the Shadow of Diagnosis explores the encounter between psychiatry and queer and gender-variant people in the mid- to late-twentieth-century United States. It examines psychiatrists' investments in understanding homosexuality as a dire psychiatric condition, a judgment that garnered them tremendous power and authority at a time that historians have characterized as psychiatry's "golden age." That stigmatizing diagnosis made a deep and lasting impact, too, on queer people, shaping gay life and politics in indelible ways. In the Shadow of Diagnosis helps us understand the adhesive and ongoing connection between queerness and sickness.


Author: Regina G. Kunzel
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 04/01/2024
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780226831855


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/08/2024
Library Journal 04/05/2024 pg. 1

About the Author
Regina Kunzel is the Larned Professor of History and Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. Kunzel is the author of Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality, also published by the University of Chicago Press.


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