UID:
almahu_9949386405002882
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 222 pages) :
,
illustrations (some color)
ISBN:
9781003108771
,
1003108776
,
9781000371994
,
1000371999
,
9781000372038
,
1000372030
Content:
"This book is about the largest debate that has occurred in the field of cultural psychiatry and its impact on diagnosing, theorizing, and clinical practice. It is also about the role of culture in psychopathology specifically in relation to China. This book is the first comprehensive and critical assessment of the anthropological psychiatry that has provided Western physicians with their ideas about somatization and culture. It is argued that psychiatric nosology and the broader cultural milieu interact in a fascinating way and co-facilitate individual conformity to culturally salient categories, consciously or unconsciously, through a process of belief, expectation, and learning. The result is that codified experiences can be translated from the mind to the body and back again. Through a critical evaluation of the Neurasthenia-Depression controversy, we can gain a view of the contested and shifting nature of psychiatric nosology, and thereby attempt to introduce the beginnings of a model that elucidates how psychiatric distress varies across cultures. This timely book challenges conventional wisdom about neurasthenia and depression in Chinese societies. Its findings will be of value to anyone who works with Chinese people with these mental illnesses across the global diaspora"--
Additional Edition:
Print version: McLawhorn, Donald. Neurasthenia-depression controversy. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 ISBN 9780367623012
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003108771
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003108771
