Afflictions: Culture & Mental Illness in Indonesia
Afflictions:
Culture and Mental Illness in Indonesia is a six-part ethnographic documentary film series on the lives of the mentally ill living on the islands of Bali and Java in Indonesia.
Each film documents the personal journey of a patient’s diagnosis, care and treatment and the impact of culture, family, and community on the course of their illness.
The films were directed and produced by ethnographic filmmaker and psychological anthropologist Robert Lemelson.
The films are based on Lemelson's ethnographic research from 1997 to 2010 on the relationship of psychiatric and neuropsychiatric disorders to culture.
It is the first film series on mental illness in the developing world.
Some emerging themes include: attitudes of family members, the power of culture in mental health outcomes, the merits of pharmaceutical treatment, and the importance of cultural context in understanding the experiences of the mentally ill.
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Robert Lemelson
Robert Lemelson is an American cultural anthropologist, ethnographic filmmaker and philanthropist.
Lemelson received his M.A. from the University of Chicago and Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Lemelson's area of specialty is transcultural psychiatry; Southeast Asian Studies, particularly Indonesia; and psychological and medical anthropology.
He currently is a research anthropologist in the Semel Institute of Neuroscience UCLA, and an adjunct professor of Anthropology at UCLA.
His scholarly work has appeared in numerous journals and books.
Lemelson founded Elemental Productions in 2008, a documentary production company, and has directed and produced numerous ethnographic films.
His blog "Psychocultural Cinema" contains numerous blog-posts and edited film works.
Lemelson also is involved in a number of philanthropic ventures.
He is the president of The Foundation for Psychocultural Research, a research foundation that supports work integrating the social and neurosciences.
He also acts a director for The Lemelson Foundation, a foundation started by his late father Jerome Lemelson to support inventors, invention and innovation in the United States and the developing world.
Lemelson has also funded a number of programs supporting scholarship and research in Anthropology through the "Robert Lemelson Foundation", which is a separate foundation from The Lemelson Foundation.
These include Lemelson Anthropological Scholars program at UCLA, and the Lemelson-SPA conference fund and the Lemelson-SPA student fellows program administered by the Society for Psychological Anthropology.
In addition, he helped create and fund the first program on Indonesian studies in thirty years, located in the International Institute at UCLA.
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Question: Which country the director of film Afflictions: Culture & Mental Illness In Indonesia is from?
Answer: American