Saints, scholars, and schizophrenics
Subtitle: mental illness  in rural Ireland
By: Nancy Scheper-Hughes.
Edition: [20th anniversary ed., rev. and expanded].
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
Subjects: Mental illness -- Ireland -- Clochan; National characteristics, Irish; Clochan (Ireland) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Description: "When Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics was published twenty years ago, it became an instant classic - a beautifully written study tracing the social disintegration of "Ballybran," a small village on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland. In this richly detailed and sympathetic book, Nancy Scheper-Hughes explores the symptoms of the community's decline: emigration, malaise, unwanted celibacy, damaging patterns of child rearing, fear of intimacy, suicide, and schizophrenia.

Following a recent return to "Ballybran," Scheper-Hughes reflects in a lengthy new preface and epilogue on the well-being of the community and on her attempts to reconcile her responsibility to honest ethnography with respect for the people who shared their homes and their secrets with her."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.