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03416aam a2200385 i 4500 001 D98B21966B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 150521t20152015caua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2015020400 020 $a 0520287118 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780520287112 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 0520287096 (cloth : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780520287099 (cloth : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)909320276 040 $a CU-S/DLC $b eng $e rda $c STF $d CUS $d DLC $d BTCTA $d BDX $d YDXCP $d OCLCF $d CDX $d COO $d LTSCA $d OCLCO $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a RC455.4 E8 J46 2015 100 1 $a Jenkins, Janis H., $e author. 245 10 $a Extraordinary conditions : $b culture and experience in mental illness / $c Janis H. Jenkins. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oakland, California : $b University of California Press, $c [2015] 300 $a xviii, 343 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-325) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : culture, mental illness, and the extraordinary -- Cultural chemistry in the Clozapine clinic -- This is how God wants it? : the struggle of Sebasti婁n -- Expressed emotion and conceptions of mental illness: social ecology of families living with schizophrenia -- The impress of extremity among Salvadoran women refugees -- Blood and magic : no hay que creer ni dejar de creer -- Trauma and trouble in the land of enchantment -- Conclusion : fruits of the extraordinary. 520 $a "With fine-tuned ethnographic sensibility, Jenkins explores the lived experience of psychosis, trauma, and depression among people of diverse cultural orientations, eloquently showing how mental illness engages fundamental human processes of self, desire, gender, identity, attachment, and meaning. Her studies illustrate the shaping of human reality and subjectivity in light of extreme psychological suffering, and shed light on psycho-political processes of alterity, precarity, and repression in the social rendering of the mentally ill as non-human or less than fully human. Extraordinary Conditions addresses the critical need to empathically engage the experience of persons living with conditions that are culturally defined as mental illness. Jenkins compellingly shows that mental illness is better characterized in terms of struggle than symptoms and that culture matters vitally in all aspects of mental illness from onset to recovery. Analysis at this edge of experience refashions the boundaries between ordinary and extraordinary, routine and extreme, healthy and pathological. The book argues that the study of mental illness is indispensable to anthropological understanding of culture and experience, and reciprocally that understanding culture and experience is critical to the study of mental illness. While anthropology neglects the extraordinary to its theoretical and empirical peril, psychiatry neglects culture to its theoretical and clinical peril"--Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Mental illness $v Cross-cultural studies. 650 0 $a Mental illness $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Medical anthropology. 650 0 $a Ethnopsychology. 941 $a 2 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20200829013659.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826040229.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D98B21966B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search