Our Most Troubling Madness
Subtitle: Case Studies in Schizophrenia Across Cultures
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Oakland, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780520291089
Description: "Schizophrenia has long puzzled researchers in the fields of psychiatric medicine and anthropology. Why is it that the rates of developing schizophrenia--long the poster child for the biomedical model of psychiatric illness--are low in some countries and not in others? And why do migrants to Western countries find that they are at higher risk for this disease when they arrive? T.M. Luhrmann and Jocelyn Marrow argue it is because the root causes for schizophrenia are not only biological, but also sociocultural. This book gives an intimate, personal account of those living with serious psychotic disorder in the U.S., India, Africa, and Southeast Asia. It introduces the notion that social defeat--the physical or symbolic defeat of one person by another--is a core mechanism in the increased risk for psychotic illness. Furthermore, 'care as usual' as it occurs in the U.S. actually increases the likelihood of social defeat, whereas 'care as usual' in a country like India diminishes it"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: label: List of Illustrations
title: ix; label: Foreward by Kim Hopper
title: xi; label: Acknowledgments
title: x; label: Introduction
title: xv; label: T.M. Luhrmann
title: 1; label: Chapter 1
title: "I'm Schizophrenic!": How Diagnosis Can Change Identity in the United States by T.M. Luhrmann
pagenum: 27; label: Chapter 2
title: Diagnostic Neutrality in Psychiatric Treatment in North India by Amy June Sousa
pagenum: 42; label: Chapter 3
title: Vulnerable Transitions in a World of Kin: In the Shadow of Good Wifeliness in North India by Jocelyn Marrow
pagenum: 56; label: Chapter 4
title: Work and Respect in Chennai by Giulia Mazza
pagenum: 71; label: Chapter 5
title: Racism and Immigration: An African-Caribbean Woman in London by Johanne Eliacin
pagenum: 86; label: Chapter 6
title: Voices That Are More Benign: The Experience of Auditory Hallucinations n Chennai by T. M. Luhrmann and R. Padmavati
pagenum: 99; label: Chapter 7
title: Demonic Voices: One Man's Experience of God, Witches, and Psychosis in Accra, Ghana by Damien Droney
pagenum: 113; label: Chapter 8
title: Madness Experienced as Faith: Temple Healing in North India by Anubha Sood
pagenum: 127; label: Chapter 9
title: Faith Interpreted as Madness: Religion, Poverty, and Psychiatry in the Life of a Romanian Woman by Jack R. Friedman
pagenum: 139; label: Chapter 10
title: The Culture of the Institutional Circuit in the United States by T.M. Luhrmann
pagenum: 153; label: Chapter 11
title: Return to Bas4eline: A WOman wiht Acute-Onset, Non-affective Remitting Psychosis in Thailand by Julia Cassaniti
pagenum: 167; label: Chapter 12
title: A Fragile Recovery in the United States by Neely A. L. Myers
pagenum: 180; label: Conclusion by Jocelyn Marrow and T.M. Luhrmann
title: 197; label: Notes
title: 223; label: Bibliography
title: 241; label: Contributors
title: 265; label: Index
title: 269