Schizophrenia, Culture, and Subjectivity: The Edge of Experience

by Janis Hunter Jenkins, Robert John Barrett

Overview

Based on international research, this collection incorporates a critical analysis of World Health Organization cross-cultural findings. Contributors share an interest in subjective and interpretive aspects of illness, while maintaining the concept of schizophrenia that addresses its biological aspects. The volume is of interest to scholars in the social and human sciences, and of practical relevance not only to psychiatrists, but all mental health professionals encountering the clinical problems bridging culture and psychosis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521829557
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/17/2003
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology , #11
Pages:	382
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.98(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword Arthur Kleinman; Introduction Janis H. Jenkins and Robert J. Barrett; Part I. Specifying Culture, Self and Experience: 1. Schizophrenia as a paradigm for understanding fundamental human processes Janis H. Jenkins; 2. Interrogating 'culture' in the WHO International Studies of Schizophrenia Kim Hopper; 3. Kurt Schneider in Borneo: do first rank symptoms apply to the Iban? Robert J. Barrett; 4. Living through a staggering world: the play of signifiers in early psychosis in South India Ellen Corin, R. Thara and R. Padmavati; 5. In and out of culture: ethnographic means to interpreting schizophrenia Rod Lucas; Part II. Four Approaches: 6. Experiences of psychosis in Javanese culture: reflections on a case of acute, recurrent psychosis in contemporary Yogyakarta, Indonesia Byron Good and M. A. Subandi; 7. To 'speak beautifully' in Bangladesh: subjectivity as pa/gala/mi James M. Wilce, Jr.; 8. Innovative care for the homeless mentally ill in Bogota, Columbia Esperanza Diaz, Alberto Fergusson and John S. Strauss; 9. Symptoms of colonialism: content and context of delusion in Southwest Nigeria, 1945–60 Jonathan Sadowsky; Part III. Subjectivity and Emotion: 10. Madness in Zanzibar: an exploration of lived experience Juli H. McGruder; 11. Subject/subjectiveness in dispute: the poetics, politics, and performance of first-person narratives of people with schizophrenia Sue E. Estroff; 12. 'Negative symptoms', common sense, and cultural disembedding in the modern age Louis A. Sass; 13. Subjective experience of emotion in schizophrenia Ann M. Kring and Marja K. Germans.

Editorial Reviews

"This book stimulates the interest of clinicians to understand the distinctive configuration of cultural influences at play in their patient's context. The book is a great resource for all mental health professionals seeking to understand culture and subjective experience in schizophrenia." Psychiatric Services, Jagannathan Srinivasaraghavan, M.D.

"This major work on schizophrenia brings together psychiatrists, psychologists, anthropologists and one historian to address how culture is manifest in and part of mental illness, specifically and for good reason, schizophrenia." Peter Trnka, Metapsychology Online Reviews

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