This work is a historically situated ethnography of the rise in psychiatric discourses in Iran since the 1990s. It explores the trajectory of emerging psychiatric selves in the convergence of the social and the psychological. I examine psychiatric mindsets, the ways different sectors of the society embody, internalize, and modify psychiatric discourses to articulate and understand their distinct generational experiences and sedimented anxieties. Generational in my inquiry has to do with the way different generations experiences the 1980s, the Iran-Iraq war, new forms of citizenship and the politicization of their bodies and minds. This ethnography is interdisciplinary, intimate and multi-sited. Its areas include medical training and practice, neuroscientific explanatory models for mental illness and it treatment, biomedical modes of thinking versus psycho-dynamic ones, the subjective experience of being or wanting to be medicated, the historical trajectory of the field of psychiatry in the 2 0 th century Iran and its knowledge communities, cultural material such as cinema and literature, shifting gendered and gendering paradigms of motherhood, biomedical modernization, and the discursive processes that give rise to emerging psychiatric selves. The 1990s paradigm shift is a significant pretext to the emergence of spaces in literature, art and particularly Persian blogs, where belated articulation and dialogical reconstruction of traumatic memory create forms of identification, and grounds for making sense of the past in order to heal, cope and move on. / by Orkideh Behrouzan. / Thesis (Ph. D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS))--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology and Society, 2010. / "September 2010." Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-278).
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/69450 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Creators | Behrouzan, Orkideh |
| Contributors | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society., Michael M.J. Fischer. |
| Publisher | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Source Sets | M.I.T. Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 278 p. |
| Rights | M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission., http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 |
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