Full Description
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.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Culture, Abnormality, and Disorder
2. Beyond Culture to the Suffering Subject
3. Culture, Psychiatry, and Cultures of Psychiatry
4. The Politics of Trauma
5. "The Big Three": Schizophrenia, Depression, and Bipolar Disorder
6. Globalization, Global Culture, and Global Mental Health
7. Drugs, God, and Talking: Shaping New "Orders" out of "Disorder"
Conclusion
Appendix I: Recommended Resources
References
Index
