ABSTRACT
By the late 1980s, biological psychiatry was finally consecrated as the reigning school of thought in mental health (Healy, 2002). Anyone could now confidently attribute deviance, distress, and dysfunction to neutrotransmitter imbalances in individual brains, and the bulk of public and private funding for mental health research shifted to support neurobiology and drug treatments. For any psychological affliction in men and women, taking psychotropic drugs became the treatment of first resort. By 2000, 13% of middle-aged women in America reported taking antidepressants (National Center for Health Statistics, 2004).
