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Extraordinary Conditions: Culture and Experience in Mental Illness
Janis H. Jenkins
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Description for Extraordinary Conditions: Culture and Experience in Mental Illness
Paperback. Explores 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, and interpretation. This book focuses on psychological suffering and the social rendering of the mentally ill as non-human or not fully human. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1 b/w, 7 tables, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: JHMC; JKSM; JMS; MBPK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 28. Weight in Grams: 506.
With a fine-tuned ethnographic sensibility, Janis H Jenkins explores 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 interpretation. Extraordinary Conditions illuminates the cultural shaping of extreme psychological suffering and the social rendering of the mentally ill as non-human or not fully human. Jenkins contends that mental illness is better characterized in terms of struggle than symptoms and that culture is central to all aspects of mental illness from onset to recovery. Her analysis refashions the boundaries between the ordinary ... Read more
With a fine-tuned ethnographic sensibility, Janis H Jenkins explores 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 interpretation. Extraordinary Conditions illuminates the cultural shaping of extreme psychological suffering and the social rendering of the mentally ill as non-human or not fully human. Jenkins contends that mental illness is better characterized in terms of struggle than symptoms and that culture is central to all aspects of mental illness from onset to recovery. Her analysis refashions the boundaries between the ordinary ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
510 g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520287112
SKU
V9780520287112
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About Janis H. Jenkins
Janis H. Jenkins is a psychological/medical anthropologist at the University of California, San Diego, and an internationally recognized scholar in the field of culture and mental health.
Reviews for Extraordinary Conditions: Culture and Experience in Mental Illness
This extraordinary book will be relevant to all who are interested in medical anthropology, psychiatry, and health studies... Highly recommended. CHOICE Connect Provocative and ethnographically rich ... Her book and her arguments are of paramount importance for anthropology, psychiatry and public health as we struggle to improve care for people facing extraordinary conditions, and its encapsulation in a ... Read more