Based on international research, this collection incorporates a critical analysis of World Health Organization cross-cultural findings. Contributors share an interest in subjective and interpretive aspects of illness, while maintaining the concept of schizophrenia that addresses its biological aspects. The volume is of interest to scholars in the social and human sciences, and of practical relevance not only to psychiatrists, but all mental health professionals encountering the clinical problems bridging culture and psychosis.
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"This book stimulates the interest of clinicians to understand the distinctive configuration of cultural influences at play in their patient's context. The book is a great resource for all mental health professionals seeking to understand culture and subjective experience in schizophrenia." Psychiatric Services, Jagannathan Srinivasaraghavan, M.D.
"This major work on schizophrenia brings together psychiatrists, psychologists, anthropologists and one historian to address how culture is manifest in and part of mental illness, specifically and for good reason, schizophrenia." Peter Trnka, Metapsychology Online Reviews
"This major work on schizophrenia brings together psychiatrists, psychologists, anthropologists and one historian to address how culture is manifest in and part of mental illness, specifically and for good reason, schizophrenia." Peter Trnka, Metapsychology Online Reviews
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This volume partners anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and historians currently studying schizophrenia and the cultural processes through which it is experienced. Based on research undertaken around the world, it incorporates a critical analysis of World Health Organization cross-cultural findings. Contributors share an interest in subjective and interpretive aspects of illness, while maintaining the concept of schizophrenia which addresses its biological dimensions. The volume is of interest to scholars in the social and human sciences, and of practical relevance not only to psychiatrists, but all mental health professionals encountering the clinical problems bridging culture and psychosis.
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This book is timely, well-written, and a much-needed addition to the literature surrounding schizophrenia! The book highlights the important role of culture in shaping the incidence, course, and outcome experiences of this remarkable illness for people around the world.
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From the standpoint of an anthropology concerned with the nature and meaning of subjective experience, it would appear to be commonplace to argue that a theoretically grounded understanding of cultural orientation, self, emotion, and social relations is vital to the analysis of a complex pathological phenomenon such as schizophrenia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
subjective thought disorder, delayed hunger, intersubjective attunement, hedonic deficit, fundamental human processes, less positive emotion, recovery from schizophrenia, schizophrenia patients, cultural phenomenology, emotional overinvolvement, developing centers, people with schizophrenia, emotional responding, person with schizophrenia, verbal hallucinations, psychotic experience, persons with schizophrenia, basic symptoms, atypical antipsychotic medications, flat affect, psychotic illness, schizophrenic illness, persecutory delusions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, University of California Press, Schizophrenia Bulletin, Cambridge University Press, American Journal of Psychiatry, Oxford University Press, Janis Hunter, World Health Organization, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, Norman Sartorius, Archives of General Psychiatry, University of Chicago Press, American Psychiatric Association, Nobel Prize, Hong Kong, Basic Books, Comprehensive Psychiatry, Pak Han, Psychological Medicine, Assen Jablensky, First-rank Symptoms of Schizophrenia, Schizophrenia Research, Sri Lanka, United States New!
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From the standpoint of an anthropology concerned with the nature and meaning of subjective experience, it would appear to be commonplace to argue that a theoretically grounded understanding of cultural orientation, self, emotion, and social relations is vital to the analysis of a complex pathological phenomenon such as schizophrenia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
subjective thought disorder, delayed hunger, intersubjective attunement, hedonic deficit, fundamental human processes, less positive emotion, recovery from schizophrenia, schizophrenia patients, cultural phenomenology, emotional overinvolvement, developing centers, people with schizophrenia, emotional responding, person with schizophrenia, verbal hallucinations, psychotic experience, persons with schizophrenia, basic symptoms, atypical antipsychotic medications, flat affect, psychotic illness, schizophrenic illness, persecutory delusions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, University of California Press, Schizophrenia Bulletin, Cambridge University Press, American Journal of Psychiatry, Oxford University Press, Janis Hunter, World Health Organization, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, Norman Sartorius, Archives of General Psychiatry, University of Chicago Press, American Psychiatric Association, Nobel Prize, Hong Kong, Basic Books, Comprehensive Psychiatry, Pak Han, Psychological Medicine, Assen Jablensky, First-rank Symptoms of Schizophrenia, Schizophrenia Research, Sri Lanka, United States New!
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- The Man Without Qualities (2 volume set) by Robert Musil on 5 pages
- Rethinking Psychiatry: From Cultural Category to Personal Experience by Arthur Kleinman in Front Matter, page 58, and page 193
- General Psychopathology (Volume 2) by Karl Jaspers in Front Matter, page 57, and page 162
- Abnormal Psychology by Michele T., Ph.D. Martin on page 343, page 345, and page 347
- RC Series Bundle: Madness and Civilization (Routledge Classics) by Michel Foucault on page 217, page 251, and page 301
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- Epidemiology and Culture (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology) by James A. Trostle in Front Matter
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