297A2
Advanced graduate seminar
SoSe 17: Anthropology of Mental Health and Illness
Thomas Stodulka
Comments
In this course, we will draw upon readings from psychological and medical anthropology, transcultural psychiatry, and science studies to examine mental health and illness with regards to subjective experiences, social relationships and cultural configurations of diagnosis and healing. Sessions will focus on cross-cultural variations of mental health and illness with a special interest on the psychological experience of ethnographers and therapists practicing research and therapy.
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Suggested reading
- Davies, James. 2013. Cracked: The Unhappy Truth about Psychiatry. London: Icon.
- Jenkins, Janis H. 2015. Extraordinary Conditions: Culture and Experience in Mental Illness. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Luhrmann. Tanya M. 2000. Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Film: Afflictions – Culture and Mental Illness in Indonesia. Directed by Robert Lemelson. 2010/11. close
- Jenkins, Janis H. 2015. Extraordinary Conditions: Culture and Experience in Mental Illness. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Luhrmann. Tanya M. 2000. Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Film: Afflictions – Culture and Mental Illness in Indonesia. Directed by Robert Lemelson. 2010/11. close
13 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Thu, 2017-04-20 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-04-27 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-05-04 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-05-11 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-05-18 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-06-01 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-06-08 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-06-15 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-06-22 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-06-29 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-07-06 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-07-13 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-07-20 10:00 - 12:00