Ayurdhi Dhar

Madness and Subjectivity

A Cross-Cultural Examination of Psychosis in the West and India. Sprachen: Englisch. 22,2 cm / 14,5 cm / 1,5 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Hardcover), 202 Seiten
EAN 9780367195694
Veröffentlicht August 2019
Verlag/Hersteller Routledge
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Beschreibung

This crucial new work draws on empirical findings from rural North India in relation to madness and subjectivity, revealing the different structures of subjectivity underlying the narratives of schizophrenia, spirits, ghosts, and deities.
Unravelling the loose ends of madness, the author explores the cultural differences in understanding and experiencing madness to examine how modern insanity is treated as a clinical disorder, but historically it represents how we form knowledge and understand self-knowledge. The author begins by theoretically investigating how the schizophrenic personifies the fractures in modern Western thought to explain why, despite decades of intense contention, the category of schizophrenia is still alive. She then examines the narratives of people in the Himalayan Mountains of rural India to reveal the discursive conditions that animate their stories around what psychology calls psychosis, critiquing the monoculturalism in trauma theory and challenging the ongoing march of the Global Mental Health Movement in the Global South.
Examining what a study of madness reveals about two different cultures, and their ways of thinking and being, this is fascinating reading for students interested in mental health, critical psychology, and Indian culture.

Portrait

Ayurdhi Dhar, Ph.D., is an instructor of psychology at the University of West Georgia. She has taught psychology in the United States and in India, where she also worked as a psychotherapist. Her research interests include the relation between schizophrenia and immigration, discursive practices sustaining the concept of mental illness, and critiques of acontextual and ahistorical forms of knowledge. She spends her time negotiating the guilt of being an ardent animal lover and meat eater.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 2: INSIDE SCHIZOPHRENIA -- A HOUSE OF MIRRORS CHAPTER 3: THE 'UNALIENATED' ALIEN: SCHIZOPHRENIC AS A HYPER-MODERN SUBJECT CHAPTER 4: DEITIES AND DESIRE - AN ANALYSIS CHAPTER 5: THE SLIP AND THE SANE: AN ANALYSIS OF SUBJECTIVITY CHAPTER 6: CASE AND POINT: THE GIRL CHILD'S STORY CHAPTER 7: NO COUNTRY FOR PSYCHOLOGY REFERENCES

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