Extraordinary conditions : culture and experience in mental illness /
With a fine-tined ethnographic sensibility, Janis H. Jenkins explore the lived experience of psychosis, trauma, and depression among people of diverse cultural orientations, revealing how mental illness engages fundamental human processes of self desire, gender, identity, attachment, and interpretat...
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press,
[2015]
Oakland, California : [2015] |
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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
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Prelude and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part one. Psychosis, Psychopharmacology, and Families
- Chapter 1. Cultural Chemistry in the Clozapine Clinic
- Chapter 2. This Is How God Wants It?
- Chapter 3. Expressed Emotion and Conceptions of Mental Illness
- Part two. Violence, Trauma, and Depression
- Chapter 4. The Impress of Extremity among Salvadoran Refugees
- Chapter 5. Blood and Magic: No Hay que Creer ni Dejar de Creer
- Chapter 6. Trauma and Trouble in the Land of Enchantment
- Conclusion: Fruits of the Extraordinary
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index