Extraordinary Conditions: Culture and Experience in Mental Illness

Explores the lived experience of psychosis, trauma, and depression among people of diverse cultural orientations, revealing how mental illness engages fundamental human processes of self, desire, gender, and interpretation. This book focuses on psychological suffering and the social rendering of the mentally ill as nonhuman or not fully human.

• | By (Author): Janis H. Jenkins (Author)
• | Publisher: University of California Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 15, 2015
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 368 pages
• | Language: NULL
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0520287096
• | ISBN-13: 9780520287099