Extraordinary conditions : culture and experience in mental illness /

"With fine-tuned ethnographic sensibility, Jenkins explores the lived experience of psychosis, trauma, and depression among people of diverse cultural orientations, eloquently showing how mental illness engages fundamental human processes of self, desire, gender, identity, attachment, and meani...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jenkins, Janis H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
Mental illness > Cross-cultural studies.
Mental illness > Social aspects.
Medical anthropology.
Ethnopsychology.
Mental Disorders > ethnology
Ethnopsychology
Maladies mentales > Études transculturelles.
Maladies mentales > Aspect social.
Ethnopsychologie.
ethnopsychology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Mental illness.
Cross-cultural studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : culture, mental illness, and the extraordinary
  • Cultural chemistry in the Clozapine clinic
  • This is how God wants it? : the struggle of Sebastián
  • Emotion and conceptions of mental illness: the social ecology of families living with schizophrenia
  • The impress of extremity among Salvadoran women refugees
  • Blood and magic : no hay que creer ni dejar de creer
  • Trauma and trouble in the land of enchantment
  • Conclusion : fruits of the extraordinary.

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