Saturday, November 24, 2018

Psychopharmacology

A session with psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster

The Psychopharmacology of Everyday Life

On the NYR Daily this week
On Monday, we published “The Psychopharmacology of Everyday Life”—or, as its author, the psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster, joked was her alternative title, “Freud’s Brain on Drugs.” The argument of her long essay is, in essence, that modern psychiatry prescribes a pill for every mental ill without treating the underlying causes of what ails us—and that talking cures merit another look. Webster mines Freud’s original ideas for deeper insights into problems that drugs merely ameliorate on the surface./.../

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