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Mental Disorder: Anthropological Insights

Mental Disorder: Anthropological Insights

Paperback

Series: Anthropological Insights

AnthropologyMental Health

ISBN10: 1442635339
ISBN13: 9781442635333
Publisher: Univ Of Toronto Pr
Published: Nov 16 2016
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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.

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