Sadeq Rahimi

Meaning, Madness and Political Subjectivity (eBook, ePUB)

A study of schizophrenia and culture in Turkey

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the relationship between subjective experience and the cultural, political and historical paradigms in which the individual is embedded. Providing a deep analysis of three compelling case studies of schizophrenia in Turkey, the book considers the ways in which private experience is shaped by collective structures, offering insights into issues surrounding religion, national and ethnic identity and tensions, modernity and tradition, madness, gender and individuality. Chapters draw from cultural psychiatry, medical anthropology, and political theory to produce a model for understanding the inseparability of private experience and collective processes. The book offers those studying political theory a way for conceptualizing the subjective within the political; it offers mental health clinicians and researchers a model for including political and historical realities in their psychological assessments and treatments; and it provides anthropologists with a model for theorizing culture in which psychological experience and political facts become understandable and explainable in terms of, rather than despite each other.Meaning, Madness, and Political Subjectivity provides an original interpretative methodology for analysing culture and psychosis, offering compelling evidence that not only "e;normal"e; human experiences, but also extremely "e;abnormal"e; experiences such as psychosis are anchored in and shaped by local cultural and political realities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317555506
• Artikelnr.: 42365910

Autorenporträt

Sadeq Rahimi is Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology and Associate Faculty in Psychiatry at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He received his training in Cultural Psychiatry from McGill University, and in Child and Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from the Montreal Children's Hospital and the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Culture
Schizophrenia
and The Political Subject 2. Old Peoples
New Identities: The Story of Turkey 3. Vicissitudes of Political Subjectivity: The Story of Emel 4. Power
Faith
and The Politics of Identity: The Story of Senem 5. Love
Loss
and a Language for Madness: The Story of Ahmet 6. Conclusions