Pathologies Of The West: An Anthropology Of Mental Illness In Europe And America by Roland Littlewood

Pathologies Of The West: An Anthropology Of Mental Illness In Europe And America

Roland Littlewood

336 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

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Psychiatry conventionally regards spirit possession and dramatic healing rituals in non-European societies as forms of abnormality, if not mental illness. Roland Littlewood, a psychiatrist and social anthropologist, argues that this view developed...

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