Troubled in the Land of Enchantment - Adolescent Experience of Psychiatric Treatment (Paperback)

In this groundbreaking study based on five years of in-depth ethnographic and interdisciplinary research, Troubled in the Land of Enchantment explores the well-being of adolescents hospitalized for psychiatric care in New Mexico. Anthropologists Janis H. Jenkins and Thomas J. Csordas present a gripping picture of psychic distress, familial turmoil, and treatment under the regime of managed care that dominates the mental health care system.  The authors make the case for the centrality of struggle in the lives of youth across an array of extraordinary conditions, characterized by personal anguish and structural violence. Critical to the analysis is the cultural phenomenology of existence disclosed through shifting narrative accounts by youth and their families as they grapple with psychiatric diagnosis, poverty, misogyny, and stigma in their trajectories through multiple forms of harm and sites of care. Jenkins and Csordas compellingly direct our attention to the conjunction of lived experience, institutional power, and the very possibility of having a life.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Janis H. Jenkins • Thomas J Csordas
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	300
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-34352-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > Mental health services Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Paediatric medicine > General Promotions
LSN:	0-520-34352-2
Barcode:	9780520343528

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