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Format: XVIII, 343 S. : , Ill.

Edition: 1. ed.

ISBN: 978-0-520-28709-9 , 978-0-520-28711-2

Content: "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

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-520-96222-4

Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology

Keywords: Psychische Störung ; Bewältigung ; Ethnopsychologie

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URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: xiv, 256 Seiten : , Illustrationen ; , 24 cm.

ISBN: 978-1-934691-38-0

Series Statement: Advanced seminar series

Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-248) and index

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (xviii, 343 pages) : , illustrations

Edition: First edition.

ISBN: 0-520-96222-2

Content: 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 nonhuman 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 and the extraordinary, the routine and the extreme, and the healthy and the pathological. This book asserts that the study of mental illness is indispensable to the anthropological understanding of culture and experience, and reciprocally that understanding culture and experience is critical to the study of mental illness.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Figures and Tables -- , Prelude and Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , Chapter 1. Cultural Chemistry in the Clozapine Clinic -- , Chapter 2. This Is How God Wants It? -- , Chapter 3. Expressed Emotion and Conceptions of Mental Illness -- , Chapter 4. The Impress of Extremity among Salvadoran Refugees -- , Chapter 5. Blood and Magic: No Hay que Creer ni Dejar de Creer -- , Chapter 6. Trauma and Trouble in the Land of Enchantment -- , Conclusion: Fruits of the Extraordinary -- , Notes -- , Works Cited -- , Index , English

Language: English

DOI: 10.1525/9780520962224

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (407 p.)

ISBN: 9781478024378

Series Statement: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography

Content: "The radically humanistic essays of Arc of Interference refigure our sense of the real, the ethical, and the political in the face of mounting social and planetary upheavals. Creatively assembled around Arthur Kleinman's medical anthropological arc and eschewing hegemonic modes of intervention, they advance the notion of a care-ful ethnographic praxis of interference. To interfere is to dislodge ideals of naturalness, blast enduring binaries (human-nonhuman, self-other, us-them), and redirect technocratic agendas while summoning relational knowledge and the will to create community. The book's multiple ethnographic arcs of interference provide a vital conceptual toolkit for today's world and a badly needed moral perch to peer toward just horizons. Contributors. Vincanne Adams, João Biehl, Davíd Carrasco, Lawrence Cohen, Jean Comaroff, Robert Desjarlais, Paul Farmer, Marcia Inhorn, Janis H. Jenkins, David S. Jones, Salmaan Keshavjee, Arthur Kleinman, Margaret Lock, Adriana Petryna"--

Note: Frontmatter , CONTENTS , FOREWORD , INTRODUCTION , PART I Traversing Imperiled Worlds and Envisaging Human Futures , Introduction , 1 Death by Fire: The Problem of Moral Certainty in China’s Tibet , 2 Bringing Up the Bodies: Erasing and Caring for Mexicans in the Mexico-US Borderlands , 3 In the Vast Abrupt: Horizon Work in an Age of Runaway Climate Change , PART II The Category Fallacy and Care amid the Experts , Introduction , 4 Justifying a Lower Standard of Health Care for the World’s Poor: A Call for Decolonizing Global Health , 5 The Moral Economies of Heart Disease and Cardiac Care in India , 6 Intimate and Social Spheres of Mental Illness , PART III Worlds of Biotechnological Promise and the Plasticity of Self and Power , Introduction , 7 A Good Death: The Promise and Threat of Biometric Inclusion for Transgender Women in India , 8 Medical Cosmopolitanism in Moral Worlds: Aspirations and Stratifications in Global Quests for Conception , 9 Environments and Mutable Selves , PART IV Tracing Arts of Living (Or, Anthropologies after Hope Has Departed) , Introduction , 10 Anthropology in a Mode of Dying , 11 Ethnographic Open , 12 Thinking on Borrowed Time . . . About Privileging the Human , AFTERWORD Lessons Learned from the Ethnography of Care , IN MEMORIAM , ACKNOWLEDGMENTS , BIBLIOGRAPHY , CONTRIBUTORS , INDEX , In English

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781478024378

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Format: 1 online resource (300 pages)

ISBN: 0-520-97501-4

Content: "In this groundbreaking study based on five years of in-depth ethnographic and interdisciplinary research, Troubled in the Land of Enchantment explores the well-being of adolescents hospitalized for psychiatric care in New Mexico. Anthropologists Janis H. Jenkins and Thomas J. Csordas present a gripping picture of psychic distress, familial turmoil, and treatment under the regime of managed care that dominates the mental health care system. The authors make the case for the centrality of struggle in the lives of youth across an array of extraordinary conditions, characterized by personal anguish and structural violence. Critical to the analysis is the cultural phenomenology of existence disclosed through shifting narrative accounts by youth and their families as they grapple with psychiatric diagnosis, poverty, misogyny, and stigma in their trajectories through multiple forms of harm and sites of care. Jenkins and Csordas compellingly direct our attention to the conjunction of lived experience, institutional power, and the very possibility of having a life"--.

Note: Includes index. , Land of enchantment, land of pain -- Coming to the hospital -- Defining the problem -- Angry boy, angry girl -- The Experience of psychiatric treatment -- Having a life -- Closing remarks -- Appendix: methods and procedures of Southwest Youth and the Experience of Psychiatric Treatment (SWYEPT).

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-520-34352-2

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-520-34351-4

Language: English

DOI: 10.1525/9780520975019