This is an ideal reader for anyone interested in studying the role that culture and social background can play in the causes of, and treatments for, mental illness. Meanings of Madness explores the variety of meanings that mental illness or madness can possess and takes into account the current move to expand the traditional medical paradigm to include social and cultural factors in the diagnosis of mental disorders. The reader was written to stand alone or to serve as a companion volume for the textbook Culture and Mental ...
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This is an ideal reader for anyone interested in studying the role that culture and social background can play in the causes of, and treatments for, mental illness. Meanings of Madness explores the variety of meanings that mental illness or madness can possess and takes into account the current move to expand the traditional medical paradigm to include social and cultural factors in the diagnosis of mental disorders. The reader was written to stand alone or to serve as a companion volume for the textbook Culture and Mental Illness (also by Richard J. Castillo). The 23 articles also include illustrations, examples, and case studies that augment the topics discussed in Castillo's main text. Most of the articles are based on ethnographic research or case studies and have appeared in journals of psychiatry, neuroscience, anthropology, and psychology.
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