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Paperback Pathologies of the West: An Anthropology of Mental Illness in Europe and America Book

ISBN: 0801487439

ISBN13: 9780801487439

Pathologies of the West: An Anthropology of Mental Illness in Europe and America

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Psychiatry conventionally regards spirit possession and dramatic healing rituals in non-European societies as forms of abnormality if not mental illness. Roland Littlewood, a psychiatrist and social anthropologist, argues that it is necessary to take into account both social process and personal cultural meaning when explaining psychiatric illness and "deviant" behavior. Littlewood brings anthropological and psychiatric literature to bear on case...

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