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1 online resource (201 pages) |
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Concepts for Critical Psychology Ser |
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Concepts for critical psychology.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; An interrogation of madness; The scope of the book; Me and my measuring stick; Conclusion; 2. Inside schizophrenia: a house of mirrors; History of madness in Foucault's Madness and Civilization; Mad doctors and medicine; Capricious classifications; Semantically schizophrenic; Invigorated by institutions; Mythologies and legends: the split and the stupor; Schizophrenia: abuse and anti-psychiatry; Schizophrenia: claims and cautions in current theories; Conclusion; Note |
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3. The "unalienated" alien: the schizophrenic as a hyper-modern subjectSass on modernity and madness; The Order of Things: an introduction; The god and the machine: living the doublet; The un-grounding of language; From blinding clarity to clear blindness; Airplanes are birds: hyper-cognition; The schizophrenic and the traumatic; Schizophrenia and immigration: becoming unalienated through alienation; Conclusion; 4. Deities and desire: an analysis; History of madness: India; Hearing voices and seeing things: arural North Indian perspective; But what about trauma?; The "how": beyond meaning |
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Visibilities and institutions: inside the haunted temple of BalajiSubject positions: the delinquent, the criminal, and the afflicted; Conclusion; Note; 5. The slip and the sane: an analysis of subjectivity; The nomadic and the afflicted: parallels in desiring-production; The slippery subject: effects and comparisons; Conclusion; 6. Case and point: the girl-child's story; The persistence of contradictions; In-betweeners: the girl-child's story; Conclusion; 7. No country for psychology; The schizophrenic and the slippery; Personalizing experience with globalized psychiatry; Conclusion |
| Summary |
This crucial new work draws on empirical findings from rural North India in relation to madness and subjectivity, revealing the different structures of subjectivity underlying the narratives of schizophrenia, spirits, ghosts, and deities. Unravelling the loose ends of madness, the author explores the cultural differences in understanding and experiencing madness to examine how modern insanity is treated as a clinical disorder, but historically it represents how we form knowledge and understand self-knowledge. The author begins by theoretically investigating how the schizophrenic personifies the fractures in modern Western thought to explain why, despite decades of intense contention, the category of schizophrenia is still alive. She then examines the narratives of people in the Himalayan Mountains of rural India to reveal the discursive conditions that animate their stories around what psychology calls psychosis, critiquing the monoculturalism in trauma theory and challenging the ongoing march of the Global Mental Health Movement in the Global South. Examining what a study of madness reveals about two different cultures, and their ways of thinking and being, this is fascinating reading for students interested in mental health, critical psychology, and Indian culture |
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| Notes |
Ayurdhi Dhar, Ph. D., is an instructor of psychology at the University of West Georgia. She has taught psychology in the United States and in India, where she also worked as a psychotherapist. Her research interests include the relation between schizophrenia and immigration, discursive practices sustaining the concept of mental illness, and critiques of acontextual and ahistorical forms of knowledge. She spends her time negotiating the guilt of being an ardent animal lover and meat eater |
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Print version record |
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Mental illness -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
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Subjectivity.
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Mental illness -- Social aspects
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PSYCHOLOGY -- General.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- Schizophrenia.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
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Mental illness -- Social aspects.
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Subjectivity.
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429511813 |
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9780429203237 |
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0429511817 |
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0429203233 |
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9780429515248 |
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0429515243 |
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9780429518676 |
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0429518676 |
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