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050	0	0	_aRC455.4.E8 _bJ46 2015
082	0	0	_a362.196890089 _223
100	1		_aJenkins, Janis H.,
245	1	0	_aExtraordinary conditions : _bculture and experience in mental illness / _cJanis H. Jenkins.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aOakland, California : _bUniversity of California Press, _c[2015]
264		4	_c©2015
300			_axviii, 343 pages ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction : culture, mental illness, and the extraordinary -- Cultural chemistry in the Clozapine clinic -- This is how God wants it? : the struggle of SebastiaÌn -- 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.
520			_a"With fine-tuned ethnographic sensibility, Jenkins explores the lived experience of psychosis, trauma, and depression among people of diverse cultural orientations, eloquently showing how mental illness engages fundamental human processes of self, desire, gender, identity, attachment, and meaning. Her studies illustrate the shaping of human reality and subjectivity in light of extreme psychological suffering, and shed light on psycho-political processes of alterity, precarity, and repression in the social rendering of the mentally ill as non-human or less than fully human. Extraordinary Conditions addresses the critical need to empathically engage the experience of persons living with conditions that are culturally defined as mental illness. Jenkins compellingly shows that mental illness is better characterized in terms of struggle than symptoms and that culture matters vitally in all aspects of mental illness from onset to recovery. Analysis at this edge of experience refashions the boundaries between ordinary and extraordinary, routine and extreme, healthy and pathological. The book argues that the study of mental illness is indispensable to anthropological understanding of culture and experience, and reciprocally that understanding culture and experience is critical to the study of mental illness. While anthropology neglects the extraordinary to its theoretical and empirical peril, psychiatry neglects culture to its theoretical and clinical peril"--Provided by publisher.
650		0	_aMental illness _vCross-cultural studies.
650		0	_aMental illness _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aMedical anthropology.
650		0	_aEthnopsychology.
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