Extraordinary conditions : culture and experience in mental illness /

Extraordinary conditions : culture and experience in mental illness / Janis H. Jenkins.

Show other versions (2)

"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...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jenkins, Janis H. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Mental illness > Cross-cultural studies.
Mental illness > Social aspects.
Medical anthropology.
Ethnopsychology.
Mental Disorders > ethnology.
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Mental illness.
Anthropologie.
Ethnopsychologie.
Kulturvergleich.
Medizin.
Psychische Störung.
Bewältigung.
Cross-cultural studies.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

Similar Items