Mental disorder : anthropological insights
Khan, Nichola
Mental disorder : anthropological insights - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2016 - xxiv, 129p.
This brief book introduces the ways in which contemporary anthropology engages with the "psych" disciplines: psychology, psychiatry, and medicine. Khan also widens the conversation by including the perspectives of epidemiologists, addiction and legal experts, journalists, filmmakers, activists, patients, and sufferers. New approaches to mental illness are situated in the context of historical, political, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial frameworks, allowing readers to understand how health, illness, normality, and abnormality are constructed and produced. Using case studies from a variety of regions, Khan explores what anthropologically informed psychology, psychiatry, and medicine can tell us about mental illness across cultures.
9781442635333 9781442635340
Mental disorders
Psychiatry
Psychology
Cross-cultural studies
Culture
Ethnic groups
WM 55
Mental disorder : anthropological insights - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2016 - xxiv, 129p.
This brief book introduces the ways in which contemporary anthropology engages with the "psych" disciplines: psychology, psychiatry, and medicine. Khan also widens the conversation by including the perspectives of epidemiologists, addiction and legal experts, journalists, filmmakers, activists, patients, and sufferers. New approaches to mental illness are situated in the context of historical, political, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial frameworks, allowing readers to understand how health, illness, normality, and abnormality are constructed and produced. Using case studies from a variety of regions, Khan explores what anthropologically informed psychology, psychiatry, and medicine can tell us about mental illness across cultures.
9781442635333 9781442635340
Mental disorders
Psychiatry
Psychology
Cross-cultural studies
Culture
Ethnic groups
WM 55