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Elemente der Völkerpsychologie : Grundlinien einer psychologischen Entwicklungsgeschichte der Menschheit / von Wilhelm Wundt.

International library of psychology, philosophy, and scientific method.

International library of psychology, philosophy and scientific method

The primitive mind and modern civilization / by Charles Roberts Aldrich.

xviii, 257 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Plundered kitchens, empty wombs : threatened reproduction and identity in the Cameroon grassfields / Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg.

Caring for patients from different cultures / Geri-Ann Galanti.

Collection Sociétés, espaces, temps.

Sociétés, espaces, temps

Ethno-psychiatrie / Henri Ellenberger ; édition critique annotée, précédée de "De la psychiatrie exotique aux réseaux universitaires de psychiatrie culturelle : pour une histoire de l'ethnopsychiatrie comme corpus de savoirs en période de transition (1945-1965)" / par Emmanuel Delille.

<p>"With fine-tuned ethnographic sensibility, Jenkins explores the lived experience of psychosis, trauma, and depression among people of diverse cultural orientations, eloquently showing how mental illness engages fundamental human processes of self, desire, gender, identity, attachment, and meaning. Her studies illustrate the shaping of human reality and subjectivity in light of extreme psychological suffering, and shed light on psycho-political processes of alterity, precarity, and repression in the social rendering of the mentally ill as non-human or less than fully human. Extraordinary Conditions addresses the critical need to empathically engage the experience of persons living with conditions that are culturally defined as mental illness. Jenkins compellingly shows that mental illness is better characterized in terms of struggle than symptoms and that culture matters vitally in all aspects of mental illness from onset to recovery. Analysis at this edge of experience refashions the boundaries between ordinary and extraordinary, routine and extreme, healthy and pathological. The book argues that the study of mental illness is indispensable to anthropological understanding of culture and experience, and reciprocally that understanding culture and experience is critical to the study of mental illness. While anthropology neglects the extraordinary to its theoretical and empirical peril, psychiatry neglects culture to its theoretical and clinical peril"--Provided by publisher.</p>

xviii, 343 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

Extraordinary conditions : culture and experience in mental illness / Janis H. Jenkins.

Symbols and sentiments : cross-cultural studies in symbolism [extract relating to Papua New Guinea] / edited by Ioan Lewis.

Psychanalyse et civilisations

Ethnologie et psychanalyse : l'autre voie anthropologique / Nadia Mohia-Navet ; préface du professeur Yvan Simonis.

<p>With fine-tuned ethnographic sensibility, Jenkins explores the lived experience of psychosis, trauma, and depression among people of diverse cultural orientations, eloquently showing how mental illness engages fundamental human processes of self, desire, gender, identity, attachment, and meaning. Her studies illustrate the shaping of human reality and subjectivity in light of extreme psychological suffering, and shed light on psycho-political processes of alterity, precarity, and repression in the social rendering of the mentally ill as non-human or less than fully human. Extraordinary Conditions addresses the critical need to empathically engage the experience of persons living with conditions that are culturally defined as mental illness. Jenkins compellingly shows that mental illness is better characterized in terms of struggle than symptoms and that culture matters vitally in all aspects of mental illness from onset to recovery. Analysis at this edge of experience refashions the boundaries between ordinary and extraordinary, routine and extreme, healthy and pathological. The book argues that the study of mental illness is indispensable to anthropological understanding of culture and experience, and reciprocally that understanding culture and experience is critical to the study of mental illness. While anthropology neglects the extraordinary to its theoretical and empirical peril, psychiatry neglects culture to its theoretical and clinical peril"--Provided by publisher</p>

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Elemente der Völkerpsychologie : Grundlinien einer psychologischen Entwicklungsgeschichte der Menschheit / von Wilhelm Wundt.

The primitive mind and modern civilization / by Charles Roberts Aldrich.

Plundered kitchens, empty wombs : threatened reproduction and identity in the Cameroon grassfields / Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg.

Caring for patients from different cultures / Geri-Ann Galanti.

Ethno-psychiatrie / Henri Ellenberger ; édition critique annotée, précédée de "De la psychiatrie exotique aux réseaux universitaires de psychiatrie culturelle : pour une histoire de l'ethnopsychiatrie comme corpus de savoirs en période de transition (1945-1965)" / par Emmanuel Delille.

Extraordinary conditions : culture and experience in mental illness / Janis H. Jenkins.

Symbols and sentiments : cross-cultural studies in symbolism [extract relating to Papua New Guinea] / edited by Ioan Lewis.

Ethnologie et psychanalyse : l'autre voie anthropologique / Nadia Mohia-Navet ; préface du professeur Yvan Simonis.

Extraordinary conditions : culture and experience in mental illness / Janis H. Jenkins.

Le sperme du diable : éléments d'ethnopsychothérapie / Tobie Nathan.

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Elemente der Völkerpsychologie : Grundlinien einer psychologischen Entwicklungsgeschichte der Menschheit / von Wilhelm Wundt.

The primitive mind and modern civilization / by Charles Roberts Aldrich.

Plundered kitchens, empty wombs : threatened reproduction and identity in the Cameroon grassfields / Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg.

Caring for patients from different cultures / Geri-Ann Galanti.

Ethno-psychiatrie / Henri Ellenberger ; édition critique annotée, précédée de "De la psychiatrie exotique aux réseaux universitaires de psychiatrie culturelle : pour une histoire de l'ethnopsychiatrie comme corpus de savoirs en période de transition (1945-1965)" / par Emmanuel Delille.

Extraordinary conditions : culture and experience in mental illness / Janis H. Jenkins.

Symbols and sentiments : cross-cultural studies in symbolism [extract relating to Papua New Guinea] / edited by Ioan Lewis.

Ethnologie et psychanalyse : l'autre voie anthropologique / Nadia Mohia-Navet ; préface du professeur Yvan Simonis.

Extraordinary conditions : culture and experience in mental illness / Janis H. Jenkins.

Le sperme du diable : éléments d'ethnopsychothérapie / Tobie Nathan.

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