T. M. Luhrmann: Our Most Troubling Madness

Cover: 9780520291096 | Our Most Troubling Madness | T. M. Luhrmann (u. a.) | Taschenbuch

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Schizophrenia has long puzzled researchers in the fields of psychiatric medicine and anthropology. Why is it that the rates of developing schizophrenia--long the poster child for the biomedical model of psychiatric illness--are low in some countries and higher in others? And why do migrants to Western countries find that they are at higher risk for this disease after they arrive? T. M. Luhrmann and Jocelyn Marrow argue that the root causes of schizophrenia are not only biological, but also sociocultural. This book gives an intimate, personal account of those living with serious psychotic disorder in the United States, India, Africa, and Southeast Asia. It introduces the notion that social defeat--the physical or symbolic defeat of one person by another--is a core mechanism in the increased risk for psychotic illness. Furthermore, "care-as-usual" treatment as it occurs in the United States actually increases the likelihood of social defeat, while "care-as-usual" treatment in a country like India diminishes it.

Über den Autor

T. M. Luhrmann is Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. She is the author of When God Talks Back, Of Two Minds, and Persuasions of the Witch's Craft. Jocelyn Marrow is a cultural anthropologist and Senior Study Director at Westat in Rockville, Maryland.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Fachbereich:	Völkerkunde
Genre:	Importe
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Völkerkunde
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	University of California Press
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780520291096
ISBN-10:	0520291093
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	T.m. Luhrmann Jocelyn Marrow
Redaktion:	Luhrmann, T. M. Marrow, Jocelyn
Hersteller:	UCAL POD University of California Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	228 x 149 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	T. M. Luhrmann (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	04.11.2016
Gewicht:	0,423 kg