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028			_aBrijwasi Book Distributors _bH-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi _cBW/000326 _d4/11/2025
082			_a362.19 JEN
100			_aJenkins, Janis H.
245			_aExtraordinary Conditions _b: Culture and Experience in Mental Illness . _c/ Janis H Jenkins.
260			_a, California _b: University of California Press _c, 2015.
300			_axviii, 343p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b1860
520			_aWith a fine-tuned ethnographic sensibility, Janis H. Jenkins 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, identity, attachment, and interpretation. Extraordinary Conditions illuminates the cultural shaping of extreme psychological suffering and the social rendering of the mentally ill as nonhuman or not fully human. Jenkins contends that mental illness is better characterized in terms of struggle than symptoms and that culture is central to all aspects of mental illness from onset to recovery. Her analysis refashions the boundaries between the ordinary and the extraordinary, the routine and the extreme, and the healthy and the pathological. This book asserts that the study of mental illness is indispensable to the anthropological understanding of culture and experience, and reciprocally that understanding culture and experience is critical to the study of mental illness.
650			_aCulture and Experience
650			_aMental Illness
650			_aEthnographic sensibility
700			_aJanis H. Jenkins
942			_cBOOK
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