Images of Health, Illness and Women in Drug Advertising

Seidenberg, Robert

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“…Sadly, in this otherwise perceptive essay, there is no mention of what is clearly an assault on women hiding behind the facade of cure. Scores of psychiatric and medical journals are financed by psychotropic drug advertising and the overwhelming number of them target women as prime users (Hughes & Brewin, 1979;Seidenberg, 1971Seidenberg, , 1974. Milden does not quote the recent study that showed that psychotherapy alone is just as effective as antidepressants in the treatment of most depressive disorders.…”

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Psychoanalysis and femininity, Part III.

Seidenberg¹

1991

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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Women and Depression: A Lifespan Perspective, an anthology by Ruth Formanek and Anita Gurian, is a string of cultured pearls. The editors have gathered a group of women and men, generally of outstanding training and experience, who have in turn captured with great sensitivity the vicissitudes of women's experiences over the life span. Risking cliche, we see women as human beings here, not vessels of chromosomes, chemicals, or hormones. There are few mentions of tranquilizers or antidepressants. In the same vein, no simple-minded remedies or holistic quick fixes are offered. Instead, women are afforded the dignity of feeling and behaving appropriately to personal and social adversities. The tone for this is set and set straight by Formanek and Gurian in their introductory remarks: Aristotle, alluding to cyclothymic disorders, believed that black bile, which is cold by nature, can produce paralysis, depression or anxiety states. However, . . . suspicion of a relationship between depression and physiological functioning continues in present-day psychiatry, although gall, bile, and slime have now been ruled out in favor of neurotransmitters [italics added], (p. xiv) NOTE: This is Part III of a three-part essay that reviews six books on psychoanalysis and women.Requests for reprints should be sent to Robert Seidenberg, MD, Suite 1604, State Tower Building,

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Seidenberg¹

1991

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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“…Typical symptoms listed for males tended to be specifically work-related, and typical symptonis listed l o r females tended to be unidentified tension, anxiety, and depression. Seidenberg (1974) andDe Bakey (1977) reported that the majority of psychotropic drug advertisements in medical and scientific journals focused on women, arid that the depiction of the wonien in the advertisements was degrading and demeaning. For instance, "How car1 this shrew be tamed?"…”

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Women and Drugs: The Heroin Abuser and the Prescription Drug Abuser

Gutierres

Patton

Raymond³

et al. 1984

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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CONCLUSIONS Female drug abusers traditionally have posed treatment problems for therapists in the drug abuse field. Information dealing specifically with female drug abuse, however, is limited. Therapists, program planners, and policy‐makers alike express a desire to improve intervention techniques with women; but until some better understanding of female drug abuse is gained, recommendations must be tentative. The bulk of the data available has focused on descriptive studies and studies which attempt to show relationships between certain psychological or sociological components of the female drug abuser's life and her subsequent drug abuse. Although these types of data provide useful information on the phenomenon, the explanatory or predictive power of empirical research is lacking. The field is clearly in need of theoretical formulations and applications. For instance, can the female drug abuser's apathetic attitude toward treatment attempts be explained partially by an external locus of control (the perception that external forces seem to control her life, so that her own efforts will have very little to do with whether or not. she is able to abstain from drug use)? Successful intervention strategy depends on this kind of information.

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The butterfly and the serpent: Culture, psychopathology and biomedicine

Littlewood

Lipsedge

1987

Cult Med Psych

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Cultural explanations of psychopathology in the West have rarely employed models derived by anthropologists for small-scale non-literate communities. Some general features of those ritual patterns usually classed as 'culture-bound syndromes' are applicable to Western neurosis. Such reactions articulate both personal predicament and public concerns, usually core structural oppositions between age groups or the sexes. They gain their power by relying on certain unquestionable assumptions which, although beyond everyday jural relationships, articulate such relationships. In the case of Western reactions, such 'mystical sanction' is provided by biomedicine. Theoretical paradigms emphasize either the individual pragmatic or expressive aspects, or social homeostasis.

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Images of Health, Illness and Women in Drug Advertising

Cited by 14 publications

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Psychoanalysis and femininity, Part III.

Psychoanalysis and femininity, Part III.

Women and Drugs: The Heroin Abuser and the Prescription Drug Abuser

The butterfly and the serpent: Culture, psychopathology and biomedicine

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