Extraordinary conditions: culture and experience in mental illness
Auteur :
Jenkins, Janis H.
Éditeur :
University of California Press
ISBN :
9780520287099
Date de publication :
15 sept. 2015
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 2,8 cm
Poids :
635 g
Format :
Cloth over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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, and interpretation. This book focuses on psychological suffering and the social rendering of the mentally ill as nonhuman or not fully human.