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Pathologies of the West: The Anthropology of Mental Illness in Euro-America
Pathologies of the West The Anthropology of Mental Illness in EuroAmerica
Author: Roland Littlewood
Psychiatry conventionally regards spirit possession and dramatic healing rituals in non-European societies as forms of abnormality, if not mental illness. Roland Littlewood, a psychiatrist and social anthropologist, argues that this view developed as Western psychiatry obscured the political origin of its own disturbing cultural patterns. This w...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780826458155
ISBN-10: 0826458157
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Continuum
Book Type: Hardcover
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