Ethnographies about Mental Health/Illness 38

A working list of recent ethnographies by cultural anthropologists addressing mental health, mental illness, and psychiatric practice. Note: I limited the publication range (generally) to the past twenty years. Most are written by anthropologists; some are by sociologists.
Cultural Anxieties: Managing Migrant Suffering in France (Medical Anthropology)
Cultural Anxieties: Managing Migrant Suffering in France (Medical Anthropology)
$155.00
Anxious China
Anxious China
$30.00
The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir
The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir
$29.00
Transforming Therapy: Mental Health Practice and Cultural Change in Mexico
Transforming Therapy: Mental Health Practice and Cultural Change in Mexico
$123.00
Living on the Spectrum: Autism and Youth in Community (Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice, 8)
Living on the Spectrum: Autism and Youth in Community (Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice, 8)
$27.00
Spacious Minds: Trauma and Resilience in Tibetan Buddhism
Spacious Minds: Trauma and Resilience in Tibetan Buddhism
$25.00
Shelter Blues: Sanity and Selfhood Among the Homeless (Contemporary Ethnography)
Shelter Blues: Sanity and Selfhood Among the Homeless (Contemporary Ethnography)
$29.00
Making It Crazy: An Ethnography of Psychiatric Clients in an American Community
Making It Crazy: An Ethnography of Psychiatric Clients in an American Community
$34.00
Meds, Money, and Manners
Meds, Money, and Manners
$37.00
Re-Visioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health
Re-Visioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health
$47.00
Global Mental Health: Anthropological Perspectives (Anthropology and Global Public Health)
Global Mental Health: Anthropological Perspectives (Anthropology and Global Public Health)
$43.00
Postcolonial Disorders (Volume 8) (Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity)
Postcolonial Disorders (Volume 8) (Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity)
$37.00
Drunken Comportment: A Social Explanation (Foundations of Anthropology)
Drunken Comportment: A Social Explanation (Foundations of Anthropology)
$33.00
The Patriotism of Despair: Nation, War, and Loss in Russia (Culture and Society after Socialism)
The Patriotism of Despair: Nation, War, and Loss in Russia (Culture and Society after Socialism)
$30.00
Illusions of a Future: Psychoanalysis and the Biopolitics of Desire (Experimental Futures)
Illusions of a Future: Psychoanalysis and the Biopolitics of Desire (Experimental Futures)
$27.00
Deconstructing Mental Illness: An Ethnography of Psychiatry, Women, and the Family
Deconstructing Mental Illness: An Ethnography of Psychiatry, Women, and the Family
The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
$36.00
Panic Diaries: A Genealogy of Panic Disorder
Panic Diaries: A Genealogy of Panic Disorder
$30.00
Schizophrenia, Culture, and Subjectivity: The Edge of Experience (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology, Series Number 11)
Schizophrenia, Culture, and Subjectivity: The Edge of Experience (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology, Series Number 11)
$38.00
Abject Relations: Everyday Worlds of Anorexia (Studies in Medical Anthropology)
Abject Relations: Everyday Worlds of Anorexia (Studies in Medical Anthropology)
$36.00
Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity, and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia
Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity, and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia
$28.00
Mudpacks and Prozac: Experiencing Ayurvedic, Biomedical, and Religious Healing
Mudpacks and Prozac: Experiencing Ayurvedic, Biomedical, and Religious Healing
$50.00
Impotent Warriors: Perspectives on Gulf War Syndrome, Vulnerability and Masculinity
Impotent Warriors: Perspectives on Gulf War Syndrome, Vulnerability and Masculinity
$143.00
Emptying Beds: The Work of an Emergency Psychiatric Unit (Volume 27) (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care)
Emptying Beds: The Work of an Emergency Psychiatric Unit (Volume 27) (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care)
$29.00
Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison (Volume 7) (California Series in Public Anthropology)
Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison (Volume 7) (California Series in Public Anthropology)
$31.00
Democratic Insecurities: Violence, Trauma, and Intervention in Haiti (Volume 22) (California Series in Public Anthropology)
Democratic Insecurities: Violence, Trauma, and Intervention in Haiti (Volume 22) (California Series in Public Anthropology)
$23.00
The Clinic and Elsewhere: Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy (In Vivo)
The Clinic and Elsewhere: Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy (In Vivo)
$35.00
Bad Souls: Madness and Responsibility in Modern Greece
Bad Souls: Madness and Responsibility in Modern Greece
$30.00
Knot of the Soul: Madness, Psychoanalysis, Islam
Knot of the Soul: Madness, Psychoanalysis, Islam
$40.00
Migrants in Translation: Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy
Migrants in Translation: Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy
$35.00
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