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Extraordinary Conditions - Culture and Experience in Mental Illness (Paperback)
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Extraordinary Conditions - Culture and Experience in Mental Illness (Paperback)
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With a fine-tuned ethnographic sensibility, Janis H Jenkins
explores the lived experience of psychosis, trauma, and depression
among people of diverse cultural orientations, revealing how mental
illness engages fundamental human processes of self, desire,
gender, identity, attachment, and interpretation. Extraordinary
Conditions illuminates the cultural shaping of extreme
psychological suffering and the social rendering of the mentally
ill as non-human or not fully human. Jenkins contends that mental
illness is better characterized in terms of struggle than symptoms
and that culture is central to all aspects of mental illness from
onset to recovery. Her analysis refashions the boundaries between
the ordinary and the extraordinary, the routine and the extreme,
and the healthy and the pathological. This book asserts that the
study of mental illness is indispensable to the anthropological
understanding of culture and experience, and reciprocally that
understanding culture and experience is critical to the study of
mental illness.
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