Extraordinary Conditions: Culture and Experience in Mental Illness

by Janis H. Jenkins and Janis H Jenkins

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520287118
• ISBN13: 9780520287112
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"