Our Most Troubling Madness

Case Studies in Schizophrenia Across Cultures

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T. M. Luhrmann
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Case Studies in Schizophrenia Across Cultures

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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations. ix
Foreward by Kim Hopper. xi
Acknowledgments. x
Introduction. xv
T.M. Luhrmann. 1
Chapter 1. "I'm Schizophrenic!": How Diagnosis Can Change Identity in the United States by T.M. Luhrmann
Page 27
Chapter 2. Diagnostic Neutrality in Psychiatric Treatment in North India by Amy June Sousa
Page 42
Chapter 3. Vulnerable Transitions in a World of Kin: In the Shadow of Good Wifeliness in North India by Jocelyn Marrow
Page 56
Chapter 4. Work and Respect in Chennai by Giulia Mazza
Page 71
Chapter 5. Racism and Immigration: An African-Caribbean Woman in London by Johanne Eliacin
Page 86
Chapter 6. Voices That Are More Benign: The Experience of Auditory Hallucinations n Chennai by T. M. Luhrmann and R. Padmavati
Page 99
Chapter 7. Demonic Voices: One Man's Experience of God, Witches, and Psychosis in Accra, Ghana by Damien Droney
Page 113
Chapter 8. Madness Experienced as Faith: Temple Healing in North India by Anubha Sood
Page 127
Chapter 9. Faith Interpreted as Madness: Religion, Poverty, and Psychiatry in the Life of a Romanian Woman by Jack R. Friedman
Page 139
Chapter 10. The Culture of the Institutional Circuit in the United States by T.M. Luhrmann
Page 153
Chapter 11. Return to Bas4eline: A WOman wiht Acute-Onset, Non-affective Remitting Psychosis in Thailand by Julia Cassaniti
Page 167
Chapter 12. A Fragile Recovery in the United States by Neely A. L. Myers
Page 180
Conclusion by Jocelyn Marrow and T.M. Luhrmann. 197
Notes. 223
Bibliography. 241
Contributors. 265
Index. 269

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Published in
Oakland, California

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Library of Congress
RC514.O93 2016

Contributors

Editor
T. M. Luhrmann
Editor
Jocelyn Marrow

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Pagination
xi, 286p

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OL26241436M
ISBN 13
9780520291089

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