Extraordinary conditions : culture and experience in mental illness /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Jenkins, Janis H., author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015] ©2015
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Mental illness -- Cross-cultural studies. Mental illness -- Social aspects. Medical anthropology. Ethnopsychology. Mental Disorders -- ethnology. Ethnopsychology. Medical anthropology. Mental illness. Mental illness -- Social aspects. Electronic book. Cross-cultural studies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11675905

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ISBN:	9780520962224 0520962222 9780520287099 0520287096 9780520287112 0520287118
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"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 meaning. Her studies illustrate the shaping of human reality and subjectivity in light of extreme psychological suffering, and shed light on psycho-political processes of alterity, precarity, and repression in the social rendering of the mentally ill as non-human or less than fully human. Extraordinary Conditions addresses the critical need to empathically engage the experience of persons living with conditions that are culturally defined as mental illness. Jenkins compellingly shows that mental illness is better characterized in terms of struggle than symptoms and that culture matters vitally in all aspects of mental illness from onset to recovery. Analysis at this edge of experience refashions the boundaries between ordinary and extraordinary, routine and extreme, healthy and pathological. The book argues that the study of mental illness is indispensable to anthropological understanding of culture and experience, and reciprocally that understanding culture and experience is critical to the study of mental illness. While anthropology neglects the extraordinary to its theoretical and empirical peril, psychiatry neglects culture to its theoretical and clinical peril"--Provided by publisher.
Other form:	Print version: Jenkins, Janis H. Extraordinary conditions. First edition 9780520287099

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.

Extraordinary conditions : culture and experience in mental illness /

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