A Disability of the Soul : an Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan /

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Bethel House, located in a small fishing village in northern Japan, was founded in 1984 as an intentional community for people with schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. Using a unique, community approach to psychosocial recovery, Bethel House focuses as much on social integration as on the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nakamura, Karen, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Temas:
Beteru no Ie (Urakawa-chō, Japan)
Mentally ill > Rehabilitation > Japan > Urakawa-chō.
Schizophrenics > Rehabilitation > Japan > Urakawa-chō.
Community mental health services > Japan > Urakawa-chō.
Mental illness > Social aspects > Japan.
Schizophrenia > Social aspects > Japan.
Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale > Réadaptation > Japon > Urakawa.
Services communautaires de santé mentale > Japon > Urakawa.
Maladies mentales > Aspect social > Japon.
Schizophrénie > Aspect social > Japon.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Community mental health services
Mental illness > Social aspects
Mentally ill > Rehabilitation
Schizophrenia > Social aspects
Schizophrenics > Rehabilitation
Japan
Japan > Urakawa-chō
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A Disability of the Soul
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Language
  • CHAPTER ONE: Arrivals
  • Memory and Catharsis: Kiyoshi's Story
  • CHAPTER TWO: Psychiatry in Japan
  • Coming of Age in Japan: Rika's Story
  • CHAPTER THREE: Hokkaido and Christianity
  • CHAPTER FOUR: The Founding of Bethel
  • UFOs and Other Mass Delusions: Kohei's Story
  • CHAPTER FIVE: The Doctor and the Hospital
  • Thirty-Seven Years of Institutionalization: Why Did Yuzuru Never Want to Leave the Hospital?
  • CHAPTER SIX: Bethel Therapies: Peer Support and a Meaningful Life: Gen's Story
  • CHAPTER SEVEN: Departures
  • CHAPTER EIGHT: Beyond Bethel: A Postscript
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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