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Culture and Psychopathology

Autor Georgi Onchev Traducere de S. Kleinsasser
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 noi 2019
The book sets itself the ambitious task of exploring the relationship between human culture and the phenomenon of mental illness, that which has embarrassed, fascinated, and challenged educated minds throughout the centuries. Various manifestations of this phenomenon are examined in specific cultural contexts, presented with notable competence, and illustrated with memorable descriptions of clinical cases. (¿) The book and its author have many merits¿the capacity to present a highly specialized subject in an intelligible, absorbing, and simultaneously profound manner; respectable erudition and academic self-discipline; and the notable skill of handling different domains of knowledge, among others. The most remarkable quality, however, is the author¿s concern both for the reader¿who is carefully led into quite unknown and still frightening territory¿as well as for his protagonists, the mentally ill. All told, I believe that this book will be of interest not just to students of psychiatry, psychology, and anthropology, but also to a broader circle of readers who are excited by the wretched and admirable destiny of being human. Haralan Alexandrov
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783631794616
ISBN-10: 3631794614
Pagini: 194
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Peter Lang Copyright AG

Notă biografică

Georgi Onchev is Professor in Psychiatry and Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology in the Medical University of Sofia. His main research experience and interests include transcultural psychiatry, personality disorders, schizophrenia, coercion in psychiatry, long-term follow up of chronic psychosis, innovative methods for rehabilitative care, and modern cognitive distortions.


Cuprins

Heritage and Phenomena - Culture: Essence and Dimensions - Psychopathology: Essence and Manifestation - The Culture-Psychopathology Relationship - Mysticism and Psychopathology - Schizophrenia and Culture - Culture Specific Syndromes - Treatment and Culture - After Tomorrow


Descriere

The book presents an interdisciplinary and cross-genre study of the relationship between culture and psychopathology as concerns their essence, mutual influence on symptom formation, and on manifestation in mystical states, mental disorders, and treatment. Predictions about cultural trends and their impact on pathology and identity are made.