Title Pathologies of the West : an anthropology of mental illness in Europe and America / Roland Littlewood

Published Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, [2002] ©2002

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Description xvi, 286 pages ; 24 cm Contents 1. Psychiatry's Culture -- 2. A Chapter against Pathology -- 3. The Butterfly and the Serpent -- 4. ... and the Nurse and Certain Others -- 5. The Instrumental Body in the Transition to Modernity -- 6. Mimesis: The Perverse Masculinity of the Domestic Siege -- 7. Soldierly Rape -- 8. Genetic Sexual Attraction and the Theory of Incest -- 9. A Disorder of the Victorian Self -- 10. Multiple Personality Returns -- 11. Reality, Truth, Power: The Dialogue between Reason and Necessity Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-283) and index Subject Cultural psychiatry -- Europe, Western. Cultural psychiatry -- North America. Cultural psychiatry -- Australia. LC no. 2001047036 ISBN 0801439345 cloth 0801487439 paperback

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