Schizophrenia, Culture, and Subjectivity: The Edge of Experience

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511616297

This volume brings together a number of the foremost scholars - anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and historians - studying schizophrenia, its subjective dimensions, and the cultural processes through which these are experienced. Based on research undertaken in Australia, Bangladesh, Borneo, Canada, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, the United States and Zanzibar, it also incorporates a critical analysis of World Health Organization cross-cultural findings. Contributors share an interest in subjective and interpretive aspects of illness, but all work with a concept of schizophrenia that addresses its biological dimensions. The volume is of interest to scholars in the social and human sciences for the theoretical attention given to the relationship between culture and subjectivity. Multidisciplinary in design, it is written in a style accessible to a diverse readership, including undergraduate students. It is of practical relevance not only to psychiatrists, but also to all mental health professionals.

'… the book is a superb achievement, and should become essential reading for students of mind and culture alike.'

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi
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Contents
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Contributors
pp ix-xiv
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Preface
pp xv-xviii
- By Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University
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Acknowledgments
pp xix-xx
- By Janis Hunter Jenkins, Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University, Robert John Barrett, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide; Clinical Advisor, Psychiatric Services of the Royal Adelaide Hospital
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Schizophrenia, Culture, and Subjectivity
pp xxi-xxii
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Introduction
pp 1-26
- By Janis Hunter Jenkins, Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University, Robert John Barrett, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide; Clinical Advisor, Psychiatric Services of the Royal Adelaide Hospital
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Part 1 - Culture, Self, and Experience
pp 27-28
- By Janis Hunter Jenkins, Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University, Robert John Barrett, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide; Clinical Advisor, Psychiatric Services of the Royal Adelaide Hospital
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1 - Schizophrenia as a Paradigm Case for Understanding Fundamental Human Processes
pp 29-61
- By Janis Hunter Jenkins, Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University
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2 - Interrogating the Meaning of “Culture” in the WHO International Studies of Schizophrenia
pp 62-86
- By Kim Hopper, Anthropologist Research Scientist, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research; Lecturer, Columbia University's Schools of Public Health and Law
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3 - Kurt Schneider in Borneo: Do First Rank Symptoms Apply to the Iban?
pp 87-109
- By Robert John Barrett, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide; Clinical Advisor, Psychiatric Services of the Royal Adelaide Hospital
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4 - Living Through a Staggering World: The Play of Signifiers in Early Psychosis in South India
pp 110-145
- By Ellen Corin, Psychologist and Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry, McGill University; Researcher, Psychosocial Research Division, Douglas Hospital Research Centre, Rangaswami Thara, Director, Schizophrenia Research Foundation, Ramachandran Padmavati, Clinical Psychiatrist and the Deputy Director, Schizophrenia Research Foundation, Madras (now Chennai), India
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5 - In and Out of Culture: Ethnographic Means to Interpreting Schizophrenia
pp 146-164
- By Rod Lucas, Anthropologist and Lecturer in Anthropology in the School of Social Sciences, University of Adelaide
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Part 2 - Four Approaches for Investigating the Experience of Schizophrenia
pp 165-166
- By Janis Hunter Jenkins, Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University, Robert John Barrett, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide; Clinical Advisor, Psychiatric Services of the Royal Adelaide Hospital
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6 - Experiences of Psychosis in Javanese Culture: Reflections on a Case of Acute, Recurrent Psychosis in Contemporary Yogyakarta, Indonesia
pp 167-195
- By Byron J. Good, Anthropologist and Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and the Department of Anthropology at Harvard, M. A. Subandi, Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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7 - To “Speak Beautifully” in Bangladesh: Subjectivity as Pāgalāmi
pp 196-218
- By James M. Wilce, Jr, Anthropologist and Associate Professor of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University
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8 - Innovative Care for the Homeless Mentally Ill in Bogota, Colombia
pp 219-237
- By Esperanza Diaz, Psychiatrist and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Director of the Hispanic Clinic, Yale University School of Medicine, Alberto Fergusson, Psychiatrist and Professor, Colombian School of Rehabilitation; Founder and President of FUNGRATA, Sopo, Colombia, John S. Strauss, Psychiatrist and Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Yale Medical School
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9 - Symptoms of Colonialism: Content and Context of Delusion in Southwest Nigeria, 1945–1960
pp 238-252
- By Jonathan Sadowsky, Associate Professor of the History of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
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Part 3 - Subjectivity and Emotion
pp 253-254
- By Janis Hunter Jenkins, Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University, Robert John Barrett, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide; Clinical Advisor, Psychiatric Services of the Royal Adelaide Hospital
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10 - Madness in Zanzibar: An Exploration of Lived Experience
pp 255-281
- By Juli H. McGruder, Anthropologist and Professor of Occupational Therapy, University of Puget Sound
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11 - Subject/Subjectivities in Dispute: The Poetics, Politics, and Performance of First-Person Narratives of People with Schizophrenia
pp 282-302
- By Sue E. Estroff, Anthropologist and Professor of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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12 - “Negative Symptoms,” Commonsense, and Cultural Disembedding in the Modern Age
pp 303-328
- By Louis A. Sass, Clinical Psychologist and Professor and Chair of the Department of Clinical Psychology, Rutgers University
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13 - Subjective Experience of Emotion in Schizophrenia
pp 329-348
- By Ann M. Kring, psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Clinical Science Program and the Psychology Clinic, University of California, Berkeley, Marja K. Germans
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Index
pp 349-357
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The Edge of Experience

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Contributors
pp ix-xiv

Preface
pp xv-xviii

Acknowledgments
pp xix-xx

Schizophrenia, Culture, and Subjectivity
pp xxi-xxii

Introduction
pp 1-26

Part 1 - Culture, Self, and Experience
pp 27-28

1 - Schizophrenia as a Paradigm Case for Understanding Fundamental Human Processes
pp 29-61

2 - Interrogating the Meaning of “Culture” in the WHO International Studies of Schizophrenia
pp 62-86

3 - Kurt Schneider in Borneo: Do First Rank Symptoms Apply to the Iban?
pp 87-109

4 - Living Through a Staggering World: The Play of Signifiers in Early Psychosis in South India
pp 110-145

5 - In and Out of Culture: Ethnographic Means to Interpreting Schizophrenia
pp 146-164

Part 2 - Four Approaches for Investigating the Experience of Schizophrenia
pp 165-166

6 - Experiences of Psychosis in Javanese Culture: Reflections on a Case of Acute, Recurrent Psychosis in Contemporary Yogyakarta, Indonesia
pp 167-195

7 - To “Speak Beautifully” in Bangladesh: Subjectivity as Pāgalāmi
pp 196-218

8 - Innovative Care for the Homeless Mentally Ill in Bogota, Colombia
pp 219-237

9 - Symptoms of Colonialism: Content and Context of Delusion in Southwest Nigeria, 1945–1960
pp 238-252

Part 3 - Subjectivity and Emotion
pp 253-254

10 - Madness in Zanzibar: An Exploration of Lived Experience
pp 255-281

11 - Subject/Subjectivities in Dispute: The Poetics, Politics, and Performance of First-Person Narratives of People with Schizophrenia
pp 282-302

12 - “Negative Symptoms,” Commonsense, and Cultural Disembedding in the Modern Age
pp 303-328

13 - Subjective Experience of Emotion in Schizophrenia
pp 329-348

Index
pp 349-357

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