Our Most Troubling Madness: Case Studies in Schizophrenia Across Cultures
T.M. Luhrmann and Jocelyn Marrow, editors
University of California Press, 2016, 304 pages
A key premise of this volume of ethnographic case studies is that schizophrenia, or the various conditions we label as schizophrenia and related psychoses, varies in crucial ways in terms of experience, prognosis and outcome …
Extraordinary Conditions: Culture and Experience in Mental Illness
Janis H. Jenkins
University of California Press, 2015, 343 pages
It has been a privilege, through reading Extraordinary Conditions, to come into contact with a writer and practitioner of extraordinary compassion. The book bears witness to a process of open-ended interviewing that contributed to presenting the lives and experiences of Jenkins’ …
An interview with Jill Anderson about the Mental Health in Higher Education project
mhhe can be found at www.mhhehub.ning.com and, on twitter, @mhhehub.
The UK-based project Mental Health in Higher Education (mhhe) sets out to increase networking and sharing innovative approaches to learning and teaching about mental health and distress across the disciplines …
Recovery’s Edge: An Ethnography of Mental Health Care and Moral Agency
Vanderbilt University Press, 2015, 192 pages
“RECOVERY! GET IT, GET OVER IT, OR GET OUT!!!” –Vera
Neely Myers’s beautifully written ethnography is a detailed look at one organization’s attempt to follow the Bush Administration’s 2004 unfunded mandate to make mental health care services …
New Facebook reactions, the expansion of “like” options to include “love,” “sad” and “angry” emoticons (among others), is just one way affect has collided with technology this month. Zuckerberg and co. collaborated with the Greater Good Science Center team to produce “scientifically faithful” icons. No longer must you experience your feelings bounded within the body; instead, Facebook …
Daughters of Parvati: Women and Madness in Contemporary India
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, 283 pages.
Sarah Pinto’s extraordinary ethnography, Daughters of Parvati: Women and Madness in Contemporary India, begins with three epigraphs that have to do with the ethics of writing, representation, and narration. Pinto has much to say about all these things, but the axis on which …