ANTH 644 - Culture And Mental Illness

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Rice University

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Description:

This seminar takes psychiatric practice as an object of anthropological investigation. It explores the ways in which emotional suffering and therapeutic systems are constituted within various social, cultural, and historical contexts. Topics include affect, anxiety, psychosis, and somatization in cross-cultural perspective; diagnostic standardization; the cultural history of psychiatry; institutionalization and deinstitutionalization; psychiatric professionalization; the globalization of Western psychiatric practice; and critical anti-psychiatry movements.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rice.edu

Phone Number:

(713) 348-0000

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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