Janis Hunter Jenkins / Robert John Barrett (eds.)

Schizophrenia, Culture, and Subjectivity

Herausgeber: Jenkins, Janis Hunter; Barrett, Robert John

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together a number of the foremost scholars - anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and historians - studying schizophrenia, its subjective dimensions, and the cultural processes through which these are experienced. Based on research undertaken in Australia, Bangladesh, Borneo, Canada, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, the United States and Zanzibar, it also incorporates a critical analysis of World Health Organization cross-cultural findings. Contributors share an interest in subjective and interpretive aspects of illness, but all work with a concept of schizophrenia that addresses its biological dimensions. The volume is of interest to scholars in the social and human sciences for the theoretical attention given to the relationship between culture and subjectivity. Multidisciplinary in design, it is written in a style accessible to a diverse readership, including undergraduate students. It is of practical relevance not only to psychiatrists, but also to all mental health professionals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 769g
• ISBN-13: 9780521829557
• ISBN-10: 0521829550
• Artikelnr.: 22310486

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Arthur Kleinman; Introduction Janis H. Jenkins and Robert J.
Barrett; Part I. Specifying Culture, Self and Experience: 1. Schizophrenia
as a paradigm for understanding fundamental human processes Janis H.
Jenkins; 2. Interrogating 'culture' in the WHO International Studies of
Schizophrenia Kim Hopper; 3. Kurt Schneider in Borneo: do first rank
symptoms apply to the Iban? Robert J. Barrett; 4. Living through a
staggering world: the play of signifiers in early psychosis in South India
Ellen Corin, R. Thara and R. Padmavati; 5. In and out of culture:
ethnographic means to interpreting schizophrenia Rod Lucas; Part II. Four
Approaches: 6. Experiences of psychosis in Javanese culture: reflections on
a case of acute, recurrent psychosis in contemporary Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Byron Good and M. A. Subandi; 7. To 'speak beautifully' in Bangladesh:
subjectivity as pa/gala/mi James M. Wilce, Jr.; 8. Innovative care for the
homeless mentally ill in Bogota, Columbia Esperanza Diaz, Alberto Fergusson
and John S. Strauss; 9. Symptoms of colonialism: content and context of
delusion in Southwest Nigeria, 1945-60 Jonathan Sadowsky; Part III.
Subjectivity and Emotion: 10. Madness in Zanzibar: an exploration of lived
experience Juli H. McGruder; 11. Subject/subjectiveness in dispute: the
poetics, politics, and performance of first-person narratives of people
with schizophrenia Sue E. Estroff; 12. 'Negative symptoms', common sense,
and cultural disembedding in the modern age Louis A. Sass; 13. Subjective
experience of emotion in schizophrenia Ann M. Kring and Marja K. Germans.