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 it is necessary to t...

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