Mental Health, Culture, and Power in the War on Terror -- Bioethics and the Conduct of Mental Health Professionals in the War on Terror -- The Meanings of Symptoms and Services for Guantánamo Detainees -- Depictions of Arabs and Muslims in Psychodynamic Scholarship -- Depictions of Suicide Bombers in the Mental Health Scholarship -- Knowledge and Practice in War on Terror Deradicalization Programs
Summary
This study finds that mental-health and biomedical professionals have created new forms of knowledge and practice in their desire to understand and fight terrorism, and in the process, psychiatrists and psychologists have either worked uncritically to protect state interests or labored to protect undesirable populations from state control. Professional interpretation, like all interpretations, is subject to cultural forces. Drawing on cultural psychiatry and medical anthropology, the author analyzes the influence of the war on terror in the transformation of definitions for normal and abnormal behavior
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO; viewed on December 23, 2014)