Bad Souls : Madness and Responsibility in Modern Greece

Davis, Elizabeth Anne

Duke University Press（2012/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780822350934
• DDC分類 362.198900

Full Description

Bad Souls is an ethnographic study of responsibility among psychiatric patients and their caregivers in Thrace, the northeastern borderland of Greece. Elizabeth Anne Davis examines responsibility in this rural region through the lens of national psychiatric reform, a process designed to shift treatment from custodial hospitals to outpatient settings. Challenged to help care for themselves, patients struggled to function in communities that often seemed as much sources of mental pathology as sites of refuge. Davis documents these patients' singular experience of community, and their ambivalent aspirations to health, as they grappled with new forms of autonomy and dependency introduced by psychiatric reform. Planned, funded, and overseen largely by the European Union, this "democratic experiment," one of many reforms adopted by Greece since its accession to the EU in the early 1980s, has led Greek citizens to question the state and its administration of human rights, social welfare, and education. Exploring the therapeutic dynamics of diagnosis, persuasion, healing, and failure in Greek psychiatry, Davis traces the terrains of truth, culture, and freedom that emerge from this questioning of the state at the borders of Europe.

Contents

Note on Orthography and Pronunciation vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Prelude: The Spirit of Synchronization 21
Part 1. False Face 51
Interlude. The Jewel of Greece 113
Part 2. Strangers 117
Interlude: The Persians 183
Part 3. A System in Doubt of Freedom 187
Reprise: Diagnosis 239
Postlude: A Peaceful Place 247
Notes 257
Bibliography 301
Index 319