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  • Mental Health and Social Withdrawal in Contemporary Japan

    Beyond the Hikikomori Spectrum

    by Nicolas Tajan ...
    Series series Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
    This book examines the phenomenon of social withdrawal in Japan, which ranges from school non-attendance to extreme forms of isolation and confinement, known as hikikomori. Based on extensive original research including interview research with a range of practitioners involved in dealing with the phenomenon, the book outlines how hikikomori expresses itself, how it is treated and dealt with and ... Read more

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  • The Weariness of the Self

    Diagnosing the History of Depression in the Contemporary Age

    by Alain Ehrenberg ...
    Depression, once a subfield of neurosis, has become the most diagnosed mental disorder in the world. Why and how has depression become such a topical illness and what does it tell us about changing ideas of the individual and society? Alain Ehrenberg investigates the history of depression and depressive symptoms across twentieth-century psychiatry, showing that identifying depression is far more ... Read more

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  • The Meaning of Madness

    Ataraxia, #1

    by Neel Burton ...
    Series Book 1 - Ataraxia
    How Sane Are You?The boundary between sanity and madness is not as clear as we like to think.The traits we admire in artists, visionaries, leaders, and innovators often overlap with those that, in their extreme forms, can lead to mental disorder. Creativity and bipolar disorder. Inspiration and psychosis. Charisma and psychopathy. Where exactly do we draw the line—and why?In this award-winning ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Psychiatry

    by Arthur Kleinman ...
    In this book, Kleinman proposes an international view of mental illness and mental care.Arthur Kleinman, M.D., examines how the prevalence and nature of disorders vary in different cultures, how clinicians make their diagnoses, and how they heal, and the educational and practical implications of a true understanding of the interplay between biology and culture. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Happiness

    The Science Behind Your Smile

    by Daniel Nettle ...
    Everybody wants it. But what exactly is happiness? The pursuit of happiness has been recognized by everyone from poets to politicians as what makes the world go round. The world's largest and fastest-growing industries - alcohol, pharmaceuticals, mind altering drugs, self-help books, counselling, travel and tourism - all profit heavily from our intent to become completely happy with our lives. In ... Read more

    $10.39 CAD

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  • Culture and Health

    Applying Medical Anthropology

    by Michael Winkelman ...
    Culture and Health offers an overview of different areas of culture and health, building on foundations of medical anthropology and health behavior theory. It shows how to address the challenges of cross-cultural medicine through interdisciplinary cultural-ecological models and personal and institutional developmental approaches to cross-cultural adaptation and competency. The book addresses the ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Depression in Japan

    Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress

    by Junko Kitanaka ...
    A study of the effect of depression and psychiatry on Japanese society—"A triumph, perhaps even a classic" ( Times Higher Education, UK)."Fully engaged with the scholarly literature, and steeped in detail and description, this exemplary book is clearly the product of great care and careful listening and observation. With its high quality, simplicity, and eloquence, it is bound to become the book ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Experiencing Psychosis

    Personal and Professional Perspectives

    Edited by Jim Geekie, Patte Randal, Debra Lampshire, John Read ...
    Series series The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis Book Series
    Extensive scientific research has been conducted into understanding and learning more about psychotic experiences. However, in existing research the voice of subjective experience is rarely taken into consideration. In this book, first-person accounts are brought centre-stage and examined alongside current research to suggest how personal experience can contribute to professional understanding, ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Recovery of People with Mental Illness

    Philosophical and Related Perspectives

    Edited by Abraham Rudnick ...
    Series series International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
    It is only in the past 20 years that the concept of 'recovery' from mental health has been more widely considered and researched. Before then, it was generally considered that 'stability' was the best that anyone suffering from a mental disorder could hope for. But now it is recognised that, throughout their mental illness, many patients develop new beliefs, feelings, values, attitudes, and ways ... Read more

    $71.19 CAD

  • Being Brains

    Making the Cerebral Subject

    by Fernando Vidal, Francisco Ortega ...
    This "interesting, informative, and provocative book" explores the pervasive influence of neuroscience and "the view that we are essentially our brains" (History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences).Being Brains offers a critical exploration of neurocentrism, the belief that "we are our brains," which came to prominence in the 1990s. Encouraged by advances in neuroimaging, the humanities and ... Read more

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  • Mental Disorder

    Anthropological Insights

    by Nichola Khan ...
    This brief book introduces the ways in which contemporary anthropology engages with the "psych" disciplines: psychology, psychiatry, and medicine. Khan also widens the conversation by including the perspectives of epidemiologists, addiction and legal experts, journalists, filmmakers, activists, patients, and sufferers. New approaches to mental illness are situated in the context of historical, ... Read more

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  • The Neuroscience of Religious Experience

    by Patrick McNamara ...
    Technical advances in the life and medical sciences have revolutionised our understanding of the brain, while the emerging disciplines of social, cognitive, and affective neuroscience continue to reveal the connections of the higher cognitive functions and emotional states associated with religious experience to underlying brain states. At the same time, a host of developing theories in psychology ... Read more

    $50.39 CAD