Cultural Ecstasies - Drugs, Gender and the Social Imaginary

Informationen zum Autor Ilana Mountian is an Honorary Research Fellow and a member of the Discourse Unit at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She also currently holds a postdoctoral research position at the Universidade de São Paolo, Brazil. Her research practice involves the application of inter-disciplinary perspectives, including critical theories, gender studies, post-colonial studies and psychoanalysis, to the study of drug use, immigration and gender. Klappentext In this important contribution to the study of drugs and addiction Illana Mountian critically analyses discourses surrounding drugs, drug treatment, and drug prevention, and develops alternative conceptual and methodological perspectives to current psychological approaches to drug use. Zusammenfassung In this important contribution to the study of drugs and addiction Illana Mountian critically analyses discourses surrounding drugs, drug treatment, and drug prevention, and develops alternative conceptual and methodological perspectives to current psychological approaches to drug use. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Conceptualising the Social Imaginary 2. Historical Discourses of Drugs 3. Discourses of Addiction 4. Drug Use and the Social Imaginary 5. Gender in the Social Imaginary of Drugs 6. Drug Policies.

Product details

• Authors: Ilana Mountian, Ilana (Manchester Metropolitan Universit Mountian, Ilana (Manchester Metropolitan University) Mountian, Mountian Ilana
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.09.2012
• EAN: 9780415583862
• ISBN: 978-0-415-58386-2
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Concepts for Critical Psychology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Sociology, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Drug & substance abuse: social aspects, Psychotherapy, Health & personal development, Social Work, Health psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Gender studies, gender groups, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Psychology of gender, Medical Sociology, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Health, Relationships and Personal development, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)