In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life

In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life - Paperback

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In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life - Paperback

In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life - Paperback

by Regina G. Kunzel
$47.03
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by Regina G. Kunzel (Author)

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 Biography

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.

Number of Pages: 240
Dimensions: 0.55 x 9 x 6 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: April 01, 2024
ISBN9780226831855
Author Regina G. Kunzel
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
GenreHistory and Education
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 2024
LanguageENG- English
Pages240
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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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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