Mental Disorder

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Mental Disorder is written by Nicola Khan and published by University of Toronto Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1442635339 (ISBN 10) and 9781442635333 (ISBN 13).

"This book reflects anthropology's growing encounter with the key "pysch" disciplines (psychology and psychiatry) in theorizing and researching mental illness treatment and recovery. Khan summarizes new approaches to mental illness, situating them in the context of historical, political, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial approaches, and encouraging readers to understand how health, illness, normality, and abnormality is constructed and produced. Using case studies from a variety of regions, Khan explores what anthropologically informed psychology/psychiatry/medicine can tell us about mental illness across cultures."--