Crazy Like Us


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Crazy Like Us


Crazy Like Us
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Author : Ethan Watters
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-01-12

Crazy Like Us written by Ethan Watters and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-12 with Psychology categories.


It is well known that American culture is a dominant force at home and abroad; our exportation of everything from movies to junk food is a well-documented phenomenon. But is it possible America's most troubling impact on the globalizing world has yet to be accounted for? In Crazy Like Us, Ethan Watters reveals that the most devastating consequence of the spread of American culture has not been our golden arches or our bomb craters but our bulldozing of the human psyche itself: We are in the process of homogenizing the way the world goes mad. America has been the world leader in generating new mental health treatments and modern theories of the human psyche. We export our psychopharmaceuticals packaged with the certainty that our biomedical knowledge will relieve the suffering and stigma of mental illness. We categorize disorders, thereby defining mental illness and health, and then parade these seemingly scientific certainties in front of the world. The blowback from these efforts is just now coming to light: It turns out that we have not only been changing the way the world talks about and treats mental illness -- we have been changing the mental illnesses themselves. For millennia, local beliefs in different cultures have shaped the experience of mental illness into endless varieties. Crazy Like Us documents how American interventions have discounted and worked to change those indigenous beliefs, often at a dizzying rate. Over the last decades, mental illnesses popularized in America have been spreading across the globe with the speed of contagious diseases. Watters travels from China to Tanzania to bring home the unsettling conclusion that the virus is us: As we introduce Americanized ways of treating mental illnesses, we are in fact spreading the diseases. In post-tsunami Sri Lanka, Watters reports on the Western trauma counselors who, in their rush to help, inadvertently trampled local expressions of grief, suffering, and healing. In Hong Kong, he retraces the last steps of the teenager whose death sparked an epidemic of the American version of anorexia nervosa. Watters reveals the truth about a multi-million-dollar campaign by one of the world's biggest drug companies to change the Japanese experience of depression -- literally marketing the disease along with the drug. But this book is not just about the damage we've caused in faraway places. Looking at our impact on the psyches of people in other cultures is a gut check, a way of forcing ourselves to take a fresh look at our own beliefs about mental health and healing. When we examine our assumptions from a farther shore, we begin to understand how our own culture constantly shapes and sometimes creates the mental illnesses of our time. By setting aside our role as the world's therapist, we may come to accept that we have as much to learn from other cultures' beliefs about the mind as we have to teach.



Weird Like Us


Weird Like Us
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Author : Ann Powers
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2000

Weird Like Us written by Ann Powers and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Bohemianism categories.


Describes the various subcultures trying to reshape America today, and includes interviews with modern bohemians, who share their views on life.



Like Crazy


Like Crazy
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Author : Dan Mathews
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2021-04-06

Like Crazy written by Dan Mathews and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


A hilarious and heartbreaking memoir about a mother and son's outlandish odyssey of self-discovery.



Crazy Like Us


Crazy Like Us
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Author : Ethan Watters
language : en
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Release Date : 2010

Crazy Like Us written by Ethan Watters and has been published by Scribe Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Psychology categories.


In Crazy Like Us, Ethan Watters reveals that the most devastating consequence of the spread of American culture has not been its golden arches or bomb craters, but the bulldozing of the human psyche itself: it is in the process of homogenising the way the world goes mad. For the past 30 years, America has been the world leader in mental-health research, and Western definitions of mental illness are prevailing over indigenous beliefs around the globe. In this book, journalist Ethan Watters travels from China to Tanzania to bring home an unsettling conclusion: as America introduces Westernised ways of treating mental illnesses, it is in fact spreading the diseases. In post-tsunami Sri Lanka, Watters reports on the Western trauma counsellors who, in their rush to help, inadvertently trampled local expressions of grief, suffering, and healing; in Japan, Watters reveals the truth about a multi-million-dollar campaign by one of the world’s biggest drug companies to change the Japanese experience of depression — literally marketing the disease along with the drug. By examining the Western impact on the psyches of people in other cultures, Watters forces us to take a fresh look at our own approaches to mental health and healing. It turns out that we may have as much to learn from other cultures’ beliefs about the mind as we have to teach them.



Crazy


Crazy
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Author : Pete Earley
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2007-04-03

Crazy written by Pete Earley and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-03 with Psychology categories.


“A magnificent gift to those of us who love someone who has a mental illness…Earley has used his considerable skills to meticulously research why the mental health system is so profoundly broken.”—Bebe Moore Campbell, author of 72 Hour Hold Former Washington Post reporter Pete Earley had written extensively about the criminal justice system. But it was only when his own son—in the throes of a manic episode—broke into a neighbor's house that he learned what happens to mentally ill people who break a law. This is the Earley family's compelling story, a troubling look at bureaucratic apathy and the countless thousands who suffer confinement instead of care, brutal conditions instead of treatment, in the “revolving doors” between hospital and jail. With mass deinstitutionalization, large numbers of state mental patients are homeless or in jail-an experience little better than the horrors of a century ago. Earley takes us directly into that experience—and into that of a father and award-winning journalist trying to fight for a better way.



Mental Disorder


Mental Disorder
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Author : Nicola Khan
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2017-01-01

Mental Disorder written by Nicola Khan and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-01 with Cross-cultural studies categories.


"This book reflects anthropology's growing encounter with the key "pysch" disciplines (psychology and psychiatry) in theorizing and researching mental illness treatment and recovery. Khan summarizes new approaches to mental illness, situating them in the context of historical, political, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial approaches, and encouraging readers to understand how health, illness, normality, and abnormality is constructed and produced. Using case studies from a variety of regions, Khan explores what anthropologically informed psychology/psychiatry/medicine can tell us about mental illness across cultures."--



Itch Like Crazy


Itch Like Crazy
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Author : Wendy Rose
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2002

Itch Like Crazy written by Wendy Rose and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Poetry categories.


A collection of poems seeks to confront questions of personal identity and buried family secrets.



Crazy Like A Fox


Crazy Like A Fox
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Author : Loreen Leedy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

Crazy Like A Fox written by Loreen Leedy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.


In a story told entirely in similes, Rufus the fox is behaving strangely, but for a very good reason. Includes a definition of simile and suggestions for writing a simile story.



No One Cares About Crazy People


No One Cares About Crazy People
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Author : Ron Powers
language : en
Publisher: Hachette Books
Release Date : 2018-05-01

No One Cares About Crazy People written by Ron Powers and has been published by Hachette Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-01 with Psychology categories.


* Finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award * Washington Post Notable Book of the Year * People Magazine Best Book of the Year * Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year * "Extraordinary and courageous . . . No doubt if everyone were to read this book, the world would change."---New York Times Book Review New York Times-bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia. From the centuries of torture of "lunatiks" at Bedlam Asylum to the infamous eugenics era to the follies of the anti-psychiatry movement to the current landscape in which too many families struggle alone to manage afflicted love ones, Powers limns our fears and myths about mental illness and the fractured public policies that have resulted. Braided with that history is the moving story of Powers's beloved son Kevin--spirited, endearing, and gifted--who triumphed even while suffering from schizophrenia until finally he did not, and the story of his courageous surviving son Dean, who is also schizophrenic. A blend of history, biography, memoir, and current affairs ending with a consideration of where we might go from here, this is a thought-provoking look at a dreaded illness that has long been misunderstood.



Crazy Like Us


Crazy Like Us
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Author : Scott J. Haschke
language : en
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Release Date : 2022-05-24

Crazy Like Us written by Scott J. Haschke and has been published by Page Publishing Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-24 with Fiction categories.


Crazy Like Us: Book 1: Sands Through the Hourglass is part one of a crazy love story. Lance found love in the most unlikely of places in the mountains of Western North Carolina. And with the most unlikely of persons, Kate, a dying, middle-aged, lonely married woman with multiple personalities. Did they find each other by chance or was it preordained? Finding out the woman he loved was crazy, most people would run away, but not Lance. He believed she was his soul mate; now he had to convince all of her personalities the same. The hardest to convince would be Miranda, his archnemesis. Welcome to the greatest love never told until now.